School Journal Story Library Activities Home: Stories from New New Zealanders

Description

We’ve put together a set of reading response and writing activities for the School Journal Story Library text ‘Home: Stories from New New Zealanders” by Kate Paris.

‘Home: Stories from New New Zealanders” is a non-fiction text that shares the real-life migration stories and settlement experiences of four young immigrants and refugees adjusting to life in New Zealand.

This School Journal Story Library text is great for Year 5 and 6 and has a Year 4 reading level.

In this School Journal Story Library: Home: Stories from New New Zealandersresource, you receive:

• One follow-up activity sheet focusing on:
  • using prior knowledge
  • comprehension monitoring
  • finding specific information
  • understanding vocabulary
  • summarising and drawing conclusions
  • making inferences using evidence.

• Apply Your Knowledge links
  • These links provide further activities and ideas to help students explore the topic of the story or article further. QR codes and web links are provided so students can visit websites, and watch video clips.

• One creative design activity: This activity challenges students to use higher-order thinking to synthesise their knowledge and create something new.
• My Journey to New Zealand Comparison Chart graphic organiser
• Writing to Entertain Writing Prompt: Letters home
• One writing template

Reading + Creativity + Text Structure + Writing Activities

These activities link directly to the new New Zealand English Curriculum.