Literacy Update

Literacy at Dana Street Primary School

This week some students were interviewed about what they love about Literacy and what they have been learning about.

What do you love about Literacy?

• I like it because we get to write - Stella, 00B
• You can make any sort of story and there's no limit - Arie, 1/2S
• In Writing we get to do a lot of hard work on our stories – Billie, 1/2k
• Word searches - Sachi, 1/2D
• That we get to write stories and letters in Writing – Fergus, 1 / 2B
• That we get to read books - Kenna, 3/4C
• Reading books - Angus, 3/4R
• I love how literacy is a bit challenging and pushes you - Clara, 3/4B
• I love how literacy sometimes but not always is challenging and it can be fun or leave you in the learning pit - Molly, 3/4N
• I really like reading the different texts and being able to do the activities and the Lit Circle roles around it - Helena, 5/6J
• How Sam makes writing interesting and I can write about things I like - Braxton, 5/ 6P
• You can get lost in the right book - Lacey, 5/6A

What are you learning in Literacy?

• Some new ways to write sentences - Aubrey, 00B
• Narratives about scientists - Aleida, 1/2S
• Narratives and inferring - Rosie, 1/2K
• Writing about the Ice Age person- Amalia, 1/2D
• Writing - Emerson 1/2B
• Reciprocal reading: summarising, clarifying and predicting - Jack, 3/4C
• How to read more words - Henry, 3/4B
• We learn how to raise our voice when an exclamation mark is present and punctuation to make it sound nice - Eleanor, 3/4N
• Reciprocal reading- Sam, 3/4R
• The debating - Summer, 5/6J
• Debating and Lit Circles- Ella, 5/6P
• Lit circles - Ramon, 5/6A