Kiwi+2012

We are learning to synthesise when we read to gain a better understanding when we read.

PK + NK = NI Prior knowledge + new knowledge = new idea = Synthesis

PK: Advice from parents. From getting in trouble at home. NK: He wishes he didn't take the money or buy the magnets.

NI: It's bad to steal and lie. The longer you wait to tell the truth the worse it gets.

WALT: ask questions when we read to gain a better understanding.

We ask questions and use our PK to answer to answer them. We also use clues in the text to answer them. Sometimes we make predictions.

WALT: predict and repredict when we read.

"Seawall" by Goldie Alexander.

We use our PK, illustrations and the title to make predictions.

Let's use the cover and title to predict what this text will be about...


 * **There will be a wall by the sea and water will crash against it. **
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Kody and Will think the seawall is like a flood bank and the water rises really quickly. **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%; text-decoration: line-through;">Maybe she gets stuck on an island.
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">**Dana will be allowed to stay home.**- Zak & Will. She is begging and asking what will go wrong.
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%; text-decoration: line-through;">Dana won't be allowed to stay at home.- Taylor & Kody. She doesn't look old enough. She doesn't look responsible.
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">She will leave the dog behind **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%; text-decoration: line-through;">and go to an island. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;"> - Evidence from the cover, she moans about the dog in the text.
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">**It's going to clear up** **and she will leave the dog behind and go to the beach.**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%; text-decoration: line-through;">The weather will turn really bad and windy and she will hide behind the floodbank to cut off the wind. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">- The illustration on the front cover, the title and her complaints about the dog.
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">She will go to the beach. **

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">A prediction is when we figure out what might happen, by using our **PK, information in the text, illustrations and the titles.**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">**Dana's dad died in the flood.** //The picture and the author tells us there was a big flood where their family lives and her dad died in that year.//
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Dana will get badly injured. //The pictures and the title.//
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">**She will fall**. //The title.//
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">**There may be a hole in the wall**. //Her feet are wet.//
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">The seawall might burst. //There is a mud puddle and a crack.//
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">**She will yell to get help.** //PK//
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">**She might call the dog.** //The dog could get help/ PK.//
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Might use the dog collar or boot to block the hole. //The dog will have a bigger part in the story/ PK.//
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">**Silas will help**. //She whistling for him.//
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%; text-decoration: line-through;">Silas won't help. The whistle wasn't long enough.
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">**Dana will be stuck there for about a day- or two days, and the dog** **or Mum will come looking for her.** //Mum is due back in two days.//
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">She will call for Silas, then he will try to find somebody or start barking. **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">She will find her view-com and patch up the hole.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">WALT: summarise what we read.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Our problems are just beginning and we use the same water over and over and one day we may not have enough even though we won't run out.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Success Criteria <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">We have to use our PK and skim and scan to find the important ideas to write our summary. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">I can summarise orally. I put our ideas together in our own words.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Cat V Dog Round 2

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;"> Cat V Dog Round 4

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">We are learning to make inferences when we read.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Success Criteria... <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Look for evidence/ clues to figure out what the author hasn't told us.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Using the text from the author and the illustrations to find out what the author hasn't written.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">"A birthday cake for Grandma" by Kathy Taylor.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">"The hidden midden"

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Can we infer what a midden is, and what is our evidence?

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">A midden is a place where you can find things from 100s of years ago.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">"Buttons" by Amanda Jackson

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">What do we know about Mum and Abby that the author hasn't told us?

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Mum can't afford the $40 for the trip.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Our evidence... <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">They way Mum said $40 and then she paused and said I'm sure we can work something out.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Inference || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Evidence ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">They don't have a lot of extra money.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">The dressing gown will be fixed with buttons.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> She likes the gown so much and it will help her to not get homesick. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">They have to have dressing gown but after it was so hard to pay the $40 getting a dressing gown will be hard for them.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">The title and "it needs a bit of work".

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">"__**Lastly**__, she folded the dressing gown and __**carefully**__ laid it on the top." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">"Each button tells a story..." ||