| Tremendous T4

Welcome Back to Term 3!

Well we have had a VERY busy start to Term 3, hence the reason there has been no blog posts yet.....eeeeeek!

So here we are to catch you up to speed! This term, we are learning all about endangered animals.

Here is a link to our favourite endangered species website: WorldWildlife
There is also the Worldwildlife app that you can get for free through the app store!

In reading we have been learning all about non-fiction text features. We found that non-fiction texts have many things that help us make meaning from what we read. Some of the text features we found are:

Titles (these are usually in bold and hint about what is in the text)
Sub-titles (these are also usually bold but smaller than a title and help organise the information on a certain topic)
Photographs
Labelled diagrams
Fact boxes
Graphs
Charts
Tables
Maps
Hyperlinks
Flow diagrams

We also noticed that there is usually a nice balance between written and graphical information on non-fiction book and magazine pages.

We have been learning about the reading strategies of 'skimming' and 'scanning' for keywords and 'determining importance' in preparation to research an endangered animal of our choice. We learnt that a keyword is an important word that gives us information about a topic.
We used our little friends 'The Keyword Catchers' to help us find 5 famous keywords in an animal text. We then had to write our own paragraph using our 5 famous keywords!