1. Mr. du Preez

2. Daybook, Guiding Notes & Oxford Reading Tree

3. Assessment G.T. Writing Class – 40 out of 200 total marks Exams – 1.Usually 20 marks for short answer  vocabulary  Skills  Basic Knowledge of the stories we read 2.And 20 marks for a writing composition

4. Rules (4 r’s) 1._____________________________________ 2._____________________________________ 3._____________________________________ 4._____________________________________

5. Good Reading Habits

7. Active Readers 1.Ask Questions – Ask questions about what happens – Ask where the story happens – Ask what the characters are like… etc. 2.Mark the Page – Mark, underline, highlight interesting otr important parts. 3.Visualize – Draw or sketch the pictures you imagine. 4.Predict – Use what you know and clues from the story to figure out what will happen next.

10. Jane Yolen also wrote Owl Moon, which we read in Grade 4

19. Do you think the Lad is really still standing there? This is obviously not a realistic story !

20. This story has a moral just like fables we read in Grade 5 But unlike fables, there are no animal characters in this story that act like humans... A story that teaches a moral like this is called a: