Reading Activities

Recount Brainstorm: https://docs.google.com/a/saintpiusx.school.nz/drawings/d/1da6EViyD7Quy9rgegrg0VWqxq4_8e9OQbDf7rUvY7nw/edit

Recount: https://docs.google.com/a/saintpiusx.school.nz/document/d/1fuw20CpD3kqNP4P2VKrBXlQ8zxdt4otpMXwv7Crd0vI/edit

05.03.2015 Spelling

1. Suspension
2. Whooping
3. Sarcastic
4. Bales
5. Bucked
6. Splintered
7. Plummet
8. Jabbed
9. Loomed
10. Sloshed

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05.03.2015 Specific Verbs

1. “ Yesterday I tried out for the wrestling team.”
2. “Today after school I went swimming with my family.”
3. “I woke up and then I found myself stretching.”
4. “I went in the garage I was so angry, I saw a punching bag so I just decided to just start kicking and punching it.”
5. “I looked in the distance I saw a figure move but then it vanished into the thin air.”
6. “The festival was huge and everyone was yelling.”
7. “When I walked in everyone was twirling and spinning.”
8. “I was in a rush so hustled through the door and through the crowd of people.”
9. “He pushed me so I grabbed his arm and pulled him back.”
10. “She was drowning quick so I plunged in the water.”

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05.03.2015 Similes and Metaphors

One of the similes are, “the bridge was so cold, that it shook.”

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04.03.2015 Sentence Structures

One of the Sentence Structure are simple, complex and compound.

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04.03.2015 Re-reading the Story

One of the features in this Recount Writing/Story is the organisation and the punctuation. I realized the organisation because of the paragraphs and how the story is set.

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04.03.2015 Evidence

The purpose of the story is to tell a story about how Cousins come together to mend their relationship by rescuing somebody. I think that this is true because of a sentence in the story, “Jake grinned, and somehow I knew I’d never have to worry about his wrestling holds again.

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03.03.2015 Vocabulary Investigation

• Stronger
• Hurt
• Panicking
• Growing

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04.03.2015 The Features of a Story

The features in a story is the who, what, when, where, why and how.

WHO was in the story? - Jake and his Cousin.

WHAT happened in the story? - Jake and his cousin was going to a river, but then a truck falls into the water and drowns. But then Jake and his cousin save the driver and mend their relationship together.

WHEN did this happen? - This event happened during the Summer Holidays.

WHERE did this take place? - This accident took place at a river.

HOW did they feel when the event happened? - They felt like panicking when the truck drowned in the water.

WHY did the truck drown in the water? - It drowned because the truck was crossing a very unsteady bridge. So then the bridge broke apart when the truck crossed it.