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 authors name is. Miss Donnell tried to trick some of us and changed the pages!

'I know the author is the writer of the story and they do the words.'

WALT use our prior knowledge while we are reading.

WALT use our prior knowledge while we are
reading.

'This is what I like to do on the playground. I always have

fun on there.'

WALT understand that illustrations help us to tell the story.

WALT understand that illustrations help us
to tell the story.

'These pictures are all about tigers. I have seen 

a tiger before.'

WALT identify parts of a book e.g title,author.

WALT identify parts of a book e.g title,author.

We have been looking in our reading identify the different parts of a book. So far we have identified the front cover, back cover, spine, title and author. We are always looking to find new parts of a book to learn about, especially in non-fiction stories.

'The title is the big one, that is easy to remember.'

Recognising Sight Words

We are learning to recognise the magenta sight words.

In Reading nga tamariki have been making great progress pointing to each word and using the pictures to help them read a sentence.  Each week we have a new "word of the week" and students do their best to identify that word in their book.

"I am good at pointing to the words", said Liam.

I am learning that illustrations help me read the story

In Reading we have been learning that the illustrations help us to read the story.  If I am unsure of a word I can look at the picture and it can help me.

"I can think when I don't know a word and look at the picture", said Liam.

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