Category Archives: Literacy

Reading Homework

Today you were all issued with your new reading books. The Blue group is reading and working on “The Eleventh Orphan”,  The Red group is reading and working on “Dragonfire” and The Green group is reading and working on “Why the Whales Came”

Reading pages for next week:

Blue: p 1-42          Red: Ch 1-7          Green: p 1-24

Spelling Homework

This week we have been learning more suffixes in our spelling lesson.  We are looking at the suffixes:- “ant” “ent” “or” “er”

This suffix means -someone who.

For example someone who bakes is a baker

Can you list an example of each suffix on the blog.

Reading Characters

Imagine you have to do a summary for a school blog on a character.  Your audience has no knowledge of the character ir the story.  You have to tell some key info in NO MORE than 50 words.  Write a response on the blog.

Blue Group – Kallik

Red Group – Lizzie

Green Group – Michael

Reading Pages

Today everyone was issued with a new reading book.

Blue Group – Seekers: The Quest Begins p1-57

Red Group – An Elephant in the Garden p1-55

Green Group – The Santa Maria p7-34

I hope you enjoy your new reading books.  Why not post a comment to let the class know your first impression of your new novel.