I'm currently running behind schedule with my year 9 Humanities class so am using the novel 'Falling into Rarohenga' as my primary text for reading activities so that we don't get further behind schedule. Having said that, I've incorporated 'Kiwi Kids News' into my weekly reading activities to add more breadth to the students' reading material and am also using some ARP reading activities for my students who are struggling at CL4.
I've created a Hapara Workspace for differentiated reading activities. At this stage stage I'm focussing on inference in reading due to the fact that the PAT reading for comprehension results showed that a majority of students are struggling with this. The students have responded enthusiastically and are progressing well.
I will not be using text sets as we are already pushed for time getting through our novel study, but will be including some extra activities based on a variety of texts such as the song 'In the Neighbourhood' by Sisters Underground and the poem 'Tūrangawaewae' by Janet Frame.
