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By the end of year four

Students in year 4 are reading texts for instructional reading purposes, and they are also increasingly required to use texts to meet the demands of the curriculum as an integral part of their regular classroom programme. Students read texts in order to locate and evaluate information and ideas about a range of subjects as they generate and answer questions to meet specific learning purposes. NB: For support in establishing what to teach (content) and the strategies to help students learn (pedagogy) it may be useful to consult [] descriptors of attitudes, skills and knowledge that students demonstrate and draw on when reading at this level. || **E-Learning**  Integration Idea (exact link to digital resource) |||| **How learning may be structured?** Teaching Tool? Students in groups? Individually? As part of literacy rotations? ||
 * **Literacy Progressions**
 * **As they read, students build on their expertise and demonstrate that they:** ||   ||||   ||
 * *working out the meanings of new words, using strategies such as:
 * applying knowledge of the most common prefixes and most common suffixes


 * Select from a variety of strategies to monitor their reading and to use when meaning breaks down,

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 * Using reference sources to find meaning of words (dictionary, thesaurus) || []

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Digistore] L10375 : Out and about: a music lesson = =

Make use of tools within word processors: thesaurus, dictionary, grammar check |||| Drag the right prefix to what it means <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">As a part of reading tumble activity for groups.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">Use of spell it/define it 'station' on this function, individually, group or class reference. || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*Meet their purpose for reading by employing specific comprehension strategies such as :
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">identifying and summarising main ideas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">making and justifying inferences
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">making connections btw. the text and their prior knowledge to interpret figurative language || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> []

[|Digistore- Read Between the Lines]

[|__Infographics__]

sharing resources created by students in: [|__Littlebirdtales,__] Book Creator, google docs

[|__Digistore- Read Between the Lines__] [|__Popplet__] or [|__padlet__] or mindmodo, [|__literacy circles__], [|__reciprocal reading__] ||||  || |||| <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Features of text types in right column identified against examples on the site. Use as part of text deconstruction with class and group teaching. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> With IWB, display shared writing/text models, reading/writing groups able to identify features of text ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*Recognise the features and purposes of some common text types and use this knowledge to navigate and understand texts || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[]

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center;">Y**ear 4 students create texts as part of their instructional writing programme as well as writing for a range of different purposes to meet the demands of the New Zealand Curriculum. They write in order to think about, record, and communicate experiences, ideas, and information to meet specific learning purposes.**

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">descriptors of attitudes, skills and knowledge that students demonstrate and draw on when writing at this level. || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">**E-Learning** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Integration Idea <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">(exact link to digital resource) |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**How learning may be structured?** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">Teaching Tool? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">Students in groups? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">Individually? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">As part of literacy rotations? || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Kidspiration / Inspiration
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Literacy Progressions**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**As they read, students build on their expertise and demonstrate that they:** ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*select and use tools and strategies to plan and organise ideas and information to meet their purposes for writing. || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Writing Fun] (Jenny Eather)

[|__Popplet__] or [|__padlet__] or [|__mindmodo__], || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Supports understanding using the writing processes. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Students can use independently to plan their writing.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*create content that is mostly relevant to the curriculum task, covers a range of ideas, experiences, or items of information, and often include detail and/or comment that supports the main points. || __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ee; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Digistore: Instructional] __



[|Skype] || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Students work in pairs on learning objects as part of a literacy task-board.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Skype could be used to make writing more authentic, providing an authentic context to investigate and connection with others to find out about topics currently being studied.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Students could identify their prior knowledge and pose questions which could be answered by experts via a Skype session. Prior knowledge and new learning could then be turned into a "text" and published. ||
 * *using vocabularly (in particular, nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) that clearly conveys ideas, experiences or information. || __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ee; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Digistore - Wonderful Words] __

[|__piclits__]

[|__storybird__]

[|pic collage]

[|puppet pals] [|sock puppets]

[|Tellagami]

__ [|woodlands games] __ ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*revise and edit their writing for clarity, impact and fitness for purpose their writing for clarity and impact. || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|VoiceThread]- feedback on writing.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Use tools such as thesaurus and spellchecker within the wordprocessor. || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Students writing could be published using Voice Thread. Writing can be orally recorded or uploaded. Others can then make written, oral or video comments to provide feedback to the author. || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> [|Voice Thread] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> [|Photo Story] [|Podomatic] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Windows Movie Maker <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Power Point
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*make choices, when appropriate, for publishing in a variety of media, including digital and visual media. || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Glogster]

[|Digistore: Picture Story] || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Model a variety of medium to publish writing and then give students a choice of how to publish.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">They draw on knowledge and skills that include:

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">*Using language and a simple text structure that are appropriate for the purpose e.g. for a recount, linking words to show sequence || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Digistore: Show and Tell] [|Digistore: Make It Happen Series] [|Digistore: Instructional] [|book creator app] [|my story app] ||  ||