This term for reading we are doing literacy circles which is when we are groups of six and we each have a role in our group which changes every week. The different roles are the Discussion Director who leads the conversation, the Connector who links the text to either there self, the world or to other books, the summariser who summarises the bit that they had read, the Passage Picker who finds three passages that they like, the Illustrator who draws pictures of a scene and the Word Master who finds three words they don't know and find their definition. I chose the book The Last Tuatara by Des Hunt.
I chose this book because I have read other books by Des Hunt such as Sunken Forest and Project Huia which I have enjoyed. So far in the book Shawn Morris has crashed in Jess and Jason's Dad's farm when he was looking for traces of oil in the area. After he had crashed Shawn rang someone to come and pick him up, so well he was waiting Jess and Jason gave him a tour of the farm. They showed him an old ruined house and also clay statues made by a person with the initials SW. He took a pair of clay Huias which are an extinct type of bird, and well they were on the tour he told them that he was moving in. I didn't expect the book to go like this even though it said on the back of the book that Shawn had crashed his plane and I did not expect him to say that he was moving in.
Have you read this book before?
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
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Hi Aleisha,
ReplyDeleteIt's Olivia your blog buddy from OLA school. Last term our hub participated in Lit circles. I read a book called the emergency zoo. It was really good and it is about two young friends who have to save the pet's of the city from getting killed before the war starts. We also have the exact same roles as your school's literacy circles, just some have different names. I haven't read that book before but it sounds like your really enjoying it.