Reading

Scroll to 2003 || Boy Soldiers Scroll down to 2008 || ===[|Boy Soldiers]=== Listen to the text. Summarise what the main idea of the text was in a few sentences. Describe what happened to Len and Stan. || The Biggest Eagle in the World Scroll down to 2005 and click on the link. || Petrel || Operation Nest Egg || Maggie the Kiwi Dog ||
 * **Seuss** || **Dahl** || **Rowling** || **Mahy** || **Dodd** ||
 * ===Seuss - Listening Post Stories=== || ===More than a Mountaineer===
 * Tuatara || Puketi Robins || Albatross
 * Bat Man - Pests in NZ || The Primate Tracker || The Moa ||  Black Robins - Don || Read the story of E3 here ||
 * Wrybills

Mighty Muscles

Little Blue Penguin

||  || Maggie the Kiwi Dog

A Whale of a Problem || Saving Sloths || Kereru Predator Quiz

Keep your cat inside ||

= Scroll down to the blue highlight for the reading activity links =


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Old Blue Video Link


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Watch the video clip. Write a paragraph about Margaret's interesting life.

= During reading you can go on these activities. Use your reading strategies while you work on these tasks. =


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This is Oxford Owl. Click on a book to read. You can use your headphones to listen to the stories being read aloud.
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Into the Book is a website where you can work on different reading strategies. Click on the __Kids section,__ choose a user name, then choose a strategy to work on.
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Test yourself on your understanding of **main idea**. Watch the video and then take the quiz. If you have time, look at the FYI.
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Test yourself on your understanding of **reading skills**. Watch the video and then take the quiz. If you have time, look at the FYI.
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What is a biography? Test yourself and your knowledge by watching this video and taking the quiz.
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Play some of these reading activities, then take the quizzes. They take a little while to load, so in the meantime try one of the other links. @http://tvnz.co.nz/meet-the-locals/s2009-e2-blackpetrel-video-2802719

Weird Inventions

Dahl - Joan Wiffen

Whale Video - Seuss

Kensuke's Kingdom:

Holes:

Save the Whales:

Anaconda Hunts:

Why did the Dinosaurs die out?

Unusual Sea Animals - Dahl Reading Group