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.