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Aliens NZ School Journal Set | Follow-Up Activities

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Categories: Year Five - Six, NZ School Journal Activities, School Journal Activities, School Journal Themed Sets
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We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for a range of NZ School Journal texts around the broad theme of Aliens. Our Aliens NZ School Journal resource has everything you need to explore this engaging topic further. Lesson plans and comprehensive follow-up activities are included. Both digital and print versions are included. 
 
The School Journal texts that we have featured are:
  • School Journal Level 2 May 2017 The Amazing Humans (story)
  • School Journal Level 3 September 2014 Not So Normal (story)
  • School Journal Level 3 November 2014 Olden Days (story)
  • School Journal Level 3 November 2016 Cancel the Invasion (story)
  • School Journal Level 4 November 2020 Far From Home (story)
  • School Journal Level 4 May 2017 Astrobiology: Finding Extraterrestrial Life (article)
Our Aliens NZ School Journal set features: 
1. Six x Lesson plans
A lesson plan is provided for each story or article covered in this resource
 
2. Six x Follow Up Activity Sheets
A one-page activity sheet is provided for each article covered in this resource.
Each activity sheet contains a range of reading comprehension strategies including:
  • Use prior knowledge
  • Find information
  • Use vocabulary
  • Make connections
  • Share opinions (evaluate)
  • Visualising
  • Making inference
3. Creative activity options are also included. These activities challenge students to use higher-order thinking to synthesise their knowledge and create something new.
 
4. A gamification element where students can track their progress in reading the texts by moving aliens onto different planets on a solar system map.
5. A full digital set of activities is included. Great for use within Google Classrooms or Microsoft Onedrive.

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