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Welcome to Week 3
Squiz Kids
Listen to today's episode of Squiz Kids. Write a short summary about the episode after you have listened. As you are listening, think about the key words and terms to help you identify the important information for your summary.
Reading Task
Reading focus: Determining importance
Today we are going to be looking at how to determine the most important information from the texts we read. To do this we need to work out what details are important (major, noteworthy, significant to the main idea) and what details are interesting (cool to know, but okay to forget).
After your 20 minutes of independent reading, complete the following activity:
Pick Three:
For each activity, you need to select the 3 most important items needed to undertake the activity. You need to justify why you have chosen the items you have.
Going Camping: tent, sleeping bag, firewood, matches, marshmallows, camp mattress, mobile phone, fishing rod, cooking pot, tarp
Making an ice cream sundae: ice cream, sprinkles, wafers, flavoured topping, chocolate drops, lollies, bowl, spoon, ice cream scoop
Today we are going to be looking at how to determine the most important information from the texts we read. To do this we need to work out what details are important (major, noteworthy, significant to the main idea) and what details are interesting (cool to know, but okay to forget).
After your 20 minutes of independent reading, complete the following activity:
Pick Three:
For each activity, you need to select the 3 most important items needed to undertake the activity. You need to justify why you have chosen the items you have.
Going Camping: tent, sleeping bag, firewood, matches, marshmallows, camp mattress, mobile phone, fishing rod, cooking pot, tarp
Making an ice cream sundae: ice cream, sprinkles, wafers, flavoured topping, chocolate drops, lollies, bowl, spoon, ice cream scoop
Reading focus: Determining importance
Determining importance is like draining a pot of boiling water and spaghetti into a strainer. When you pour the hot water and spaghetti into the strainer, the water slips through the holes, leaving only the noodles behind. You don’t need the water anymore, only the noodles. In the same way, when we read, our brain is like that strainer. We keep only the important things and let everything else strain out.
After and during your 20 minutes of independent reading, complete the following activity.
In your book, create two columns (see below) and as you read, write down important information and interesting details you find.
The first column will be important details and events that make the biggest impact on the story as a whole. Almost as if this event or detail didn’t happen then the story would be completely different.
The second column is things that are good to know but not essential to the story eg if the character has blonde hair, this is great to know but it would make no difference if their hair was brown, black or red.
Determining importance is like draining a pot of boiling water and spaghetti into a strainer. When you pour the hot water and spaghetti into the strainer, the water slips through the holes, leaving only the noodles behind. You don’t need the water anymore, only the noodles. In the same way, when we read, our brain is like that strainer. We keep only the important things and let everything else strain out.
After and during your 20 minutes of independent reading, complete the following activity.
In your book, create two columns (see below) and as you read, write down important information and interesting details you find.
The first column will be important details and events that make the biggest impact on the story as a whole. Almost as if this event or detail didn’t happen then the story would be completely different.
The second column is things that are good to know but not essential to the story eg if the character has blonde hair, this is great to know but it would make no difference if their hair was brown, black or red.
Reading focus: Determining importance
After and during your 20 minutes of independent reading, complete the following activity.
Using the two columns you created yesterday, as you read, write down important information and interesting details you continue to find.
Remember:
The first column will be important details and events that make the biggest impact on the story as a whole. Almost as if this event or detail didn’t happen then the story would be completely different.
The second column is things that are good to know but not essential to the story eg if the character has blonde hair, this is great to know but it would make no difference if their hair was brown, black or red.
You should aim to write at least 3 in each column today.
After and during your 20 minutes of independent reading, complete the following activity.
Using the two columns you created yesterday, as you read, write down important information and interesting details you continue to find.
Remember:
The first column will be important details and events that make the biggest impact on the story as a whole. Almost as if this event or detail didn’t happen then the story would be completely different.
The second column is things that are good to know but not essential to the story eg if the character has blonde hair, this is great to know but it would make no difference if their hair was brown, black or red.
You should aim to write at least 3 in each column today.
Reading focus: Determining importance
After your 20 minutes of independent reading, complete the following questions.
After your 20 minutes of independent reading, complete the following questions.
- Read the short information text Stinky, Sweaty Stench!
- Locate the ‘important details’ and ‘interesting details’ and add to the two columns.
- Worksheet and text is available below if required but the columns can be simply drawn up in the workbook or on paper.
Reading focus: Determining importance
After your 20 minutes of independent reading, complete the following questions.
After your 20 minutes of independent reading, complete the following questions.
- What were the 3 main important parts of the text I read today?
- Why were these important?
- Why is it important being able to determine importance of a text?
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