WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

Room 4 has been using all of our reading skills this year, ready for Year 2. Every week we have a new 'test' 
about different parts of the book. We have been searching for full stops, exclamation marks, question marks 
and commas. This week we are focusing on finding the author and the illustrator. We all had a turn to come up 
and point to where the illustrators name is. Miss Donnell tried to trick some of us and changed the pages!

'I know the illustrator is the person who draws the pictures for the story.' 

WALT use our prior knowledge while we are reading.

WALT use our prior knowledge while we are reading.

'I like to play on the playground. I always have lots of fun!'

WALT identify different types of punctuation.

WALT identify different types of punctuation.

'I found a full stop at the end of a sentence!'

WALT make a prediction about our story.

WALT make a prediction about our story.

The giraffes group have been learning about making predictions in a story. We have been making some of our own predictions throughout our books. We know that a prediction is like a 'guess' about what we think is going to happen.

'This is my prediction. I know what happened.'

Rhyming Words

We are learning to create a rhyming string.

In Reading we have been sounding out, writing, and reading rhyming words.  By practising this we are able to decode unknown words more effectively.

"Rhyming strings are easy and I can do them", said Paige.

I am learning to recognise punctuation

In Reading we have been learning the different types of punctuation in our books.  We know that an exclamation mark means use a strong voice, a full stop means the end of a sentence, and a question mark means someone is asking a question.  We played a game on the computer to help us remember the different punctuation marks.  Mrs Tetupu read the sentence to us and then we had to choose the right mark.  Here is a screen shot of the game we played:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/games/penguins_on_ice/big_no_sound/full2.shtml

"This game was easy for me because I could find the right penguin to use."

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