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Anzac Day Reading
Treasure Chest of Books being read aloud

Read about the brain
Here are some links to useful websites where you can read and practise using your reading strategies!

StoryonlineUse your headphones and choose a story to listen too.
Lexia Learning
Log on to your Lexia Learning account.


EPIC
Log onto EPIC and listen to or read books that you are interested in.
You will need to login as: server@grantsbraes.school.nz
Ask the teacher for the password.



Into the BookExplore this site to practise your comprehension strategies.

Learn English Kids Read and watch stories

] Wonderopolis Read about the wonders of our world and learn some weird, crazy and interesting facts. ZiptalesRead and listen to a variety of different books.You will need to log in as grantsbraes See the teacher for the password.

Kiwi kids news
Read all about the latest current events. You can complete the questions and activities at the bottom of each article in your reading book

School Journal stories
Grab the journal that is in your group box and find them on here to listen along as you read.


Story Bee
Listen to a variety to different stories.

Poetry4kids Read poems and complete poetry activities. This may give you some ideas for your own poetry writing.

Young explorer
Read issues of the young explorer - all about animals around our world.






Poetry Activities

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Poems

Spelling and Word Fun

Grammar and punctuation games
Capital letters and full stops
Lets make a sentence
Syllables
Unscramble the letters
Memory match
Word blender
Make a word
Match the contraction
Games and activities
Spelling city
Kids spell
Spelling games
Cluster buster
Fun plurals
Sandcastle quiz
Word blender
Word jumbler
Spellbinder
Word grammar

Story maker

Go to this website and answer the easy questions it asks...it will then make your ideas into a story at a click of button (no writing needed!)
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/make-your-own/story-maker


Biographies

Biographies of Famous People

Go here and choose some famous people to read about. Read the biography and answer the questions at the end of it about the person's life. Click on underlined words to find out what new words mean. Keep a written record of new words and their meanings.

Adventure activity

Here is a site you can have a go at writing your own adventure story on http://adventurewrite.com/kids/totems_tutorial.html

Computer Reading Activity
With a buddy go to this website and choose an animal information report to read.
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/

Computer Reading Activity

Go to this news site for kids http://www.dogonews.com/
Read an article (not video)

activities and games for reading and writing

http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/pages/studentlinks/reading.htm
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm