Tui+2012

We are learning to ask questions as we read to gain a better understanding of the text.

What I do when I'm asking questions as I read: Ask a question and think about what the answer may be, so sometimes I predict. I also use my PK to connect what I already know to the text.

WALT:make a prediction and repredict when we are reading.

A prediction is a good, well thought out guess. We make predictions by looking at the illustrations, by using our PK, and by using information in the text.

The lady  **Mum gets given pink fluffy slippers** but she doesn't like them so she tries to get rid of them. //The illustration shows her trying to mow them but the lawn mower is smoking so she probably won't be able to.//

**Heather will get Mum pink fluffy slippers.** //The book is called "Pink fluffy slippers".//

**She might see them in an advertisement in the newspaper.** //She is cutting stuff out of the newspaper, so she might come across them.//


 * Heather will get the slippers on the way home from school ** **while shopping with Dad**, with her own money  **using her own money and she may ask Dad for more to pay for the slippers.** //The illustrations and PK.//

Peter's present is a cardboard plane. It looks like a wing/ a pile of boxes stuck together. Mum likes the slippers <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">. She said you shouldn't have and I don't know what to say. PK <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**//M//um doesn't like the slippers.** //She might be saying it sarcastically, the cover and PK. There may be a reason why she doesn't have slippers.// <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**The slippers are outside.** //The cover.// <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Mum hid the slippers in Dad's things, so she can blame him. //She is being sneaky.// <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**It isn't really the dog hiding the slippers.** //Usually dogs just destroy slippers- PK. The dog couldn't get the slippers on top of the wardrobe.//

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">WALT: combine the important information in the text to make a summary.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">People of Tongatapu use tuitui nuts to wash their hair long ago. They collect leaves and nuts after a windy day or night. Tuitui nuts can be used for many things. The nuts have creamy white and waxy kernels inside. The tuitui nuts are too hard to be opened by hand so you need a special Kava stone. There are no rocks on Tongatapu so they must get them somewhere else. You have to be careful not to swallow it and rinse the shampoo through until it squeaks and comb your hair to make sure it's all gone.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Success Criteria <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">I can read and find the main idea to put the information in my own words.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">We are learning to make inferences when we read.

//<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">We know we have to find clues to figure out something the author wants us to know but hasn't told us. //

//<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">Inferencing is... //
 * //<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">Reading between the lines. //
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">Finding the clues in the text to tell you something that the author doesn't specifically tell you.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">Sometimes predicting.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">When you make an assumption.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">When take a risk to figure something out.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">Using the illustrations and/or PK to make an assumption.

//<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">"No more tea parties" by Maria Gill //

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">// My inference... // //<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Originally the chimpanzees didn't want to be taken to the zoo. //

//<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Evidence... // //<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">They had to be torn away from their mothers. //

//<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Evidence... //
 * //<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">"Why is the monkey in a cage all by itself?" //
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">"... Janie and her mates were not used to open skies and grass."

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">My inference... <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">They were in a small dark cage, and they didn't like their big enclosure because it was different and confusing.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Katie's inference... <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Janie can use the DVD player and insert the discs.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Evidence... <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">They left a tv and a dvd player for her. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">"access" to.

//<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">A cake for Grandma... //

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">My inference...

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Mum doesn't want to have to clean up after them.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">My evidence...
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">"Mum slants her head to one side and stares into space."
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">The kids are begging Mum.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">My own prior knowledge.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">My inference...

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Grandma is clearly a good cook and loves her grandchildren.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">My evidence...
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">She made a soccer field, a cat and a chocolate cake for the kids and she loves her veges.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Our inference... <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">They're lazy and want to watch tv rather than clean up. Mum isn't happy about it because she knows that she'll end up cleaning if they go and watch tv.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Our evidence...
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">" We can watch some tv while it's cooking" he says. I nod.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">"Uh-uh". Mum shakes her head and points to the bench. "You clean that up first.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Our inference... <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Grandma has passed away.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Our evidence...
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">The picture.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">"Mum kneels on the grass and arranges her flowers..."