Narrative Text | Response | Blooms Thinking

PREMIUM RESOURCE | The Nursery Rhyme connects beginning readers with prior knowledge of rhythm and rhyme. The resource provides an opportunity to explore text features, vocabulary, and letter-sound relationships in a poetic context. The activities focus on word-level features, such as initial letters or word patterns, and playing games such as Word Bingo. Activities are Cut and Paste, Fill in the Missing Word and, Draw and Write for students. Visual Language questions, Vocabulary List, Teaching Ideas, Shared Reading Planner and Emergent Reading / Phonological Awareness Learning Intentions are also included for the teacher. Landscape format

PREMIUM RESOURCE | The Early Reading resource supports the Level 3, 4 and 5 reading programme. Students learn more about reading strategies each time they read. They begin to integrate these strategies in their reading. The sixteen Learning Intentions present individual strategies which interact and support each other. The resource includes sixteen Learning Intention charts, a complete list of Learning Intentions, a student Learning Intention-Self-Assessment sheet and a Reading Learning Intention-Self-Assessment template for individual learning. A4 Landscape format.

FREE | Students respond to the Maori legend of Hatupatu and the Bird Woman by creating an illustration to match the text. The completed activity may be made into a class booklet or displayed on the wall for future reading.

SMART RESOURCE | Includes five inquiry cards with a series of questions focused on a readers’ response to a narrative text.