Whole Class School Journal Resource Year 5 & 6 – All as One SJ L3 November 2020

Description

Boost Reading Comprehension with our “All as One” Whole-Class Teaching Resource

Elevate your students’ reading comprehension skills using Science of Reading principles with this comprehensive resource. These activities focus on the “All as One” article from the Level 3 November 2020 School Journal. Ideal for structured literacy programmes and timely for Ramadan studies, this tool fosters deep comprehension, vocabulary enrichment, grammar, syntax, sentence structure, verbal reasoning, and content knowledge development.

Exploring “All as One”:

The “All as One” article offers insights into the Muslim community’s values through the experiences of individuals connected to the Kilbirnie and Hāwera mosques.

Structured Learning Approach:

This resource provides a 85-slide slideshow, supplementary worksheets, and graphic organisers designed for whole-class instruction. Project the School Journal PDF, distribute copies of the text (2-3 students per copy), and utiliae the Presenter View for seamless lesson delivery.

The text is divided into three sections for three reading sessions, allowing ample time for vocabulary and content exploration. Discussion prompts are included to stimulate critical thinking and student engagement. Days four and five feature:

• GIST summarising activity
• Text structure analysis graphic organiser (Concept map)
• Critical thinking questions

Key Features:

• Focus on comprehension monitoring, summarising, concluding, and evidence-based reasoning.
• Comprehension activities beyond simple recall.
• Literacy activities linked to key writing skills: complex sentences, conjunctions, clauses and adverbial phrases, sentence expanding (because, but, so), speech marks, figurative language, and morphology (prefix re-).
• GIST summarising activity for concise text condensation.
• Concept Map graphic organiser for text structure analysis.
• Explicit vocabulary instruction with definitions, examples, and semantic activities (synonyms and antonyms).
• Activities aligned with the New Zealand English Curriculum for Phase Two: Year 5 and 6.

Benefits:

• Promotes active learning and student engagement.
• Builds vocabulary and improves comprehension strategies for diverse learners, including those needing extra support.
• Facilitates connections between the text and students’ own experiences.

Curriculum Alignment (Phase Two – Years 5 and 6):

This resource supports students in:

• Monitoring and confirming comprehension (annotating, rereading, questioning, visualizing).
• Summarising and concluding, identifying key details.
• Inferring using stated and implied ideas.
• Analysing text structure and language for effect.
• Thinking critically about perspectives and making connections.

Usage Tips:

• Use PowerPoint in presentation mode.
• Display text and provide student copies for shared reading.
• Follow the three-session structure, extending with follow-up activities on days four and five.