New Zealand separated from Gondwana around 65 million years ago. Due to the geographical isolation and a lack of ground-dwelling predators, our birds evolved unique characteristics. Flight was not required to escape predators, so birds such as the kiwk, takehe, and (now extinct) moa adapted to these conditions by developing a large body size and loss of flight.
How to read this...
- identifying complex meaning-carrying vocabulary
- extracting key ideas/concepts/notions/knowledge parts
- grammatical analysis
With that all together, what are the meaning-making demands??
things to think about
- kids might know the words, but they know them in a specific context, are they transferring the meaning of that word into this new context?
STOP AND THINK THEN GO AGAIN. STOP AND THINK THEN GO AGAIN.
Kids get a specific idea of what 'reading' is, and quite often that is reading the whole text QUICKLY, and being better at reading is being at a higher level. They often don't want to use visuals, stop and ask questions, stop and think, etc. We need to change their idea of what reading is..
