Literacy Update

In Reading Block this term, we have been studying some different genres of writing and their special features. We’ve looked at narratives, procedures, explanations, poetry and biographies. I’ve been so pleased with the way the students have been making personal connections with the text and working hard to use clues in the text to make inferences. Featured below are the students synthesising the main ideas from an informative text about plants.

In writing, we have been creating poems, incorporating different parts of speech. Last week, the students made acrostic poems about themselves. They then published these to look like rainbows, which are hanging in our classroom. Josephine did an excellent job of incorporating rhyme and figurative language.

Joyfully as can be,

One, two three, I am me.

Special as busy bee in a hive.

Elegant as a swimmer doing a dive.

Perfect as a bird,

High voices being heard.

Intelligent at dancing,

Neat at prancing.

Extraordinary as gold.