Counting Kakahi | Keywords & Concept Star

L.I: To identify keywords from a text.

This week for reading the reading groups read a text and made a keywords list and concept star of it. We used the keywords list template before and we are using it again to help us learn to identify the keywords from a text. We had to write the title of the book, the text type, author of the text, and the purpose of the text then below that template there was another with a list of 2 rows of boxes going down which is where we had to write the keywords from the text. Concept star was new to the reading groups. On the concept star google draw template there was a star in the middle which would say the title of book and 5 boxes scattered around it. They all had some questions about the text and sentence starters. In the top corner we had to put our names and the title. The text my group read was Counting kākahi . This book is about a water scientist named Hannah who was interested in kākahi  which are freshwater black water mussels and so she finds out information by researching and talking to kaumātua which is the elderly. She discovers and founds out many thing about kākahi uses two methods to find them, visual searches and hand searches. In the end her data told her that there is a troubling problem with the kākahi in her river she doesn't know why yet but has some thoughts on it. The questions on our concept star were - Do you think caring for the waterways will help kākahi thrive? Why?, How do kākahi feed?, What things are needed for kākahi to reproduce properly?, What method of counting kākahi sounds like the most fun to you?, and What method of counting kākahi sounds like the most fun to you? which you can see all the questions in the DLO. This text help me learn and find a lot of information about kākahi.

Keyword List | Keywords & Reminders

L.I: To identify keywords from a text.
This week for reading we made a list of key words of a text about the nervous system from the books we found last week. First we had practised finding key words with Mr Wong in our groups and talking about what key words are as a class. Key words are words that are main ideas from a text. We had to get a book out of the books we found last week about nerves and nervous system. Then we had to make a copy of a google document with a template on it. We had to write the title, type of text it is, the author of the book, and the purpose of it. Then we had boxes for writing the key words in the text and the reminds which means what those key word remind or tell you about. There were 9 boxes to write each key word from the text and a reminder box next to each that goes with each one. We had to try and lower down the amount of key words we had and use the necessary ones instead of the ones we don't really need.