Reading Activity, Reflection.

Today, Thursday 29th May,  I had read a fiction story which was called "The Ice Cream shop window", the story was about a group of kids trying to find out who had vandalised their favourite ice cream shops window. The author had many the ending pretty interesting because the culprit had a glowing head.

Reflection, Reading Activity

Today I had learnt many things from the story "Wild Weather", like how Australia commonly has drought and bushfires. Wild Weather was very detailed with alot of information about how strong the weather could turn into, how hail forms and much more.

Book Review - Stranded

Choose a word to describe your book.

                                    

Title: Stranded    Author: Jan Thorburn

Date started: Monday 2nd September 2013   Date finished: Not yet finished

This book was...

Mysterious - I think it was mysterious because you never know are they gonna survive or die?

What was the book about?

This book is about two young boys named Toby and Sam. In my opinion I don’t think that this two boys aren't the best combination because, Toby is from England (city boy) and Sam is the opposite. Toby and Sam set off on a fishing trip and have been hit by a huge wave, and have just drifted away to a deserted island. While they are there they imagine all the things they could be doing if they were still back at home. Will they get back home? Will they survive? Will they die?

What did you like about the book?

The mystery, will they survive?

What was your favourite part of the book?

Favourite part was when they woke up at the island

How many stars would you give this book? Colour the stars.

(5 – Excellent, 1 – Poor)

I give this book four stars.

Book Review - The Unknown Zone

Choose a word to describe your book.

                                    

Title: The Unknown Zone.  Author: Phil Smith.

Date started: Monday 29th July 2013.   Date finished: Not yet finished.

This book was... Entertaining.

What was the book about?

This book is about a young girl named Hemi Ratana. Hemi Ratana is a fifteen year old girl who was traumatised by a humiliating incident. Climbing a giant Kauri on the Coromandel Peninsula in a do or die test of courage. In the back bending branches of the Kauri, Hemi finds a human skeleton. Around its neck is a key chain, what may the key be for? 160 years earlier, on the West Coast of the South Island was a group of Australian sealers. They are  taken captive by Ngai Tahu, marauders. In a desperate offer for survival one of the captives join up with another Maori group and they all travel to the Eastern Coromandel.  

What did you like about the book?

That no matter what this family did to this girl she never let that over take her.

What was your favourite part of the book?

The little girl falls into the river bank and nearly dies but then she gets saved.

How many stars would you give this book? Colour the stars.

(5 – Excellent, 1 – Poor)

I would say this book is a five star book.

Reading Activity - Level 3

On Frog Pond

This task is about adding words to a  text so it makes sense -  This will also show comprehension and understanding of text.

Read the text and put in the correct word.

It's early morning on frog pond. As the sun rises, light sparkles on the water (1).    All sorts of  pond animals are waking up. A (2) busy day is beginning.

    At the edge of  the (3) pond, a little green frog sits on a lilypad (4) in the water. He

is hidden here among  the (5) floating plants. He keeps very still and very quiet (6).

His big, bulging eyes are watching. He's watching the (7) dragonflies. He's watching for

slugs and worms. He's waiting (8) for flies. This little frog is hungry for food.(9).

    Someone else is hungry too. A dragonfly hums high (10) above the water. She is a fierce

hunter, looking (11) for insects. She hovers near a clump of  frogs (12). She can fly in

any direction, even backwards and (13) sideways. Like the frog, she has very

big eyes(14). Suddenly she spots a fly crawling up a tree (15). She swoops down

like an arrow and grabs the (16) fly with her powerful front legs. Gripping it

as(17), she munches away at it with her sharp body (18) parts.

    The little frog has seen all this happening (19). He turns very slightly. He's ready to pounce,

but (20) he keeps very still. He hopes that the fly (21) will take off towards him

when she's finished eating(22). He hopes she won't notice him sitting

still  in (23) green among the pondweed. Soon she flies away(24).

My Answers:

1	Water  ✓	15	Tree  ✓
2	A   ✓	16	The  ✓
3	The ✓	17	Quickly  ✓
4	Lilypad   ✓	18	Mouth  ✓
5	The  ✓	19	Happening
6	Quiet   ✓	20	But  ✓
7	The ✓	21	Dragonfly ✓
8	Waiting   ✓	22	Eating  ✓
9	Food  ✓	23	In  x
10	High  x	24	Away  ✓
11	Looking    ✓
12	Frogs  x
13	And  ✓
14	Eyes ✓

Reading Activity - Level 4

The following piece of writing has words missing. Read the whole piece of writing first to get an idea of what it is about. Fill in the gaps so that the piece of writing makes sense. Write only ONE word in each space. You can cross out and change answers as you go along.

The largest of all flying creatures is the albatross, which can have a wingspan of 3.5 metres.

The bill of this huge seagull is long and powerful.

The albatrosses home (1) is the southern oceans of the world (2) where it

may sometimes travel great distances (3). One albatross, found near the Chilean

area (4), had a special identification tag fastened from (5) its neck which

had been put down (6) in New Zealand only 12 days earlier. At (7) that

brief time the bird had  gone (8) 4800 kilometres, an average of 400 kilometres (9)

daily – an amazing feat of endurance.

They (10) are capable of flying at speeds higher (11) than 90 km/h. Their

outstanding ability to soar (12) and glide far better than any

____________ (13) bird has led to them being ____________ (14)

'the prince of soaring birds'.

They feed (15) mainly on squid, fish, shrimp, and

sea (16) creatures that are found near the bottom (17)

of the sea. They also swoop down (18) on scraps thrown overboard from ships.

Also (19) they will follow a ship for many (20) days.

Albatrosses will alight on the top (21) surface, but only when it is  (22).

They visit land in the breeding only (23) for a brief time. Adult birds go (24)

out at sea for two or longer than (25) three years.

Image source: T.Mattern, Department of Zoology, University of Otago

My Answers:

1	Home ✔	15	Feed ✔
2	World ✔	16	Small ✔
3	Distances ✔	17	Surface ✔
4	Area	18	Down ✔
5	Near ✔	19	Sometimes ✔
6	Down	20	Many ✔
7	In ✔	21	Ocean ✔
8	Travelled ✔	22	?
9	Kilometres ✔	23	Only
10	They ✔	24	Stay ✔
11	Greater ✔	25	Even ✔
12	Soar ✔
13	?
14	?