I can apply my knowledge of adverbial clauses and connectives to see how ideas are linked in texts.

I can apply my knowledge of adverbial clauses and connectives to see how ideas are linked in texts.

For reading I have been learning about adverbial clauses. I have found this learning Easy because you get the hang of it easily.

In this activity, I had to find the adverbial clauses in the sentence and then highlight it in green.

I can recognise and understand a variety of grammatical constructions and some rhetorical patterns

I can recognise and understand a variety of grammatical constructions and some rhetorical patterns

In this unit I have been learning about:

• The parts of speech.
• The types of nouns.
• The types of sentences.

In this unit, I found challenging… learning about all the new things.

Something new I learnt was... Learning more about nouns.

I can understand the features of different types of text and text forms

WALT: I understand the features of different types of texts and text forms.

1. Text features are important because: it helps the reader when reading it e.g. for a poem some features setting, main character and point of view.

2. Each genre has different text features because: Each genre is different and different things happen.

3. Two genres that I studied the text features of are: Poems and A Website.

Here are the links to all 5 of my follow ups.

Features of a story.       

Features of a website

Features of a explanation

Features of a article

Features of a poem

Reading: Vocabulary

Here my reading activity for week 5.

Year 7/8: I can use my growing wide range of academic and content-specific vocabulary to understand texts.

Name of Text: Underground Explorers

Defintions

Void: an empty space or vacuum. Fluorescent: able to give off visible light after being exposed to a source of heat, light, or other form of energy Vulnerable: able to be hurt or injured Interconnected: to connect or cause to be connected one to the other or others. Seldom: not often; rarely.

Example/Non Example	Is a void messy? Why or why not?	no because it is a empty space.
	Which color is the most fluorescent at night? Why?	yellow because when a car goes past when it's lights are it reflects.
	Why are elderly people more vulnerable than children? Why?	because they are old and there bones are more fragile.
	Which is more interconnected; a vine or a dandeloin? Why?	a vine because they are connected to each other.
	Which is more seldom; the Olympics or an election in NZ? Why?	the olympics because they are 4 years apart.

Word Associations	The plants in the garden are die during a frost	vulnerable.
	There were lots of different paths that joined each other	interconnected.
	I made a shot from halfway while facing backwards.	seldom
	We are still exploring  outer space.	void
	I can find my key ring easily in the dark.	fluorescent

Word Relationships How might each pair of words be connected?	Vulnerable/Fluorescent	If you were wearing dark clothes you will be vulnerable because you could get by a car.
	Void/interconnected	Because you can connect together and clean the room to make it an empty space.

Extended Writing	Think of a time when you felt as though you were in a void or when you saw something that happens seldom. Write a paragraph about this.
	It was in my summer sport cricket last season.  I got out and I had only got about 10 runs in my innings.  With about 4 games to go I somehow stepped up and got not outs and 20-30 runs each game.  I also bagged a few wickets in these games as well.  It turned out to be a good end to the season for me.

I can describe the structure of a Short Story

Blog post title: I can describe the structure of a Short Story

Something I have learned about the structure of short stories is: They are about a page long and have lots of paragraphs.

After reading some short stories two things I will remember when I write my own short story are they have to have a problem in them and they have lots of detail in them.

I can gather, evaluate, and synthesise information across a small range of texts

W.A.L.T. I can gather, evaluate, and synthesise information across a small range of texts

In the year 7/8's we have been learning about the flag debate. We had to pair up and fill out a google doc about the flag. On the doc we had to find some info about the new flag and the current flag. After that we had to group them commen knowelge, Personal Opinion, Statistics, Expert Opinion.

Click the link to see your google doc on the flag. https://docs.google.com/a/oaklands.school.nz/document/d/12im57JaKX5_vSbFp9aowVeQ-zO7R6DQzIv1e5kBB9Ak/edit?usp=sharing