Dogs are better that Cats - Term 4 Week 5

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

DOGS MAKE WAY BETTER PETS THAN CATS!!!

I strongly believe that Dogs are better than Cats!

Furthermore, if you have a fun dog you can throw a frisbee or a ball at them to catch. To be honest it’s fun for your dogs and fun for you, and cats cannot catch a ball in their mouth or a frisbee.  Another point is you can teach them how to do ROLLY POLLYS, because my dog can do Rolly pollys.

Another reason is if you train your dog they can get your newspaper for you and cats cannot because they don’t have big enough mouths. Dogs keep your house safe, if there is a burglar they will bark and wake you up so you can call the police, unfortunately cats don’t, they would go meow very quietly and won’t wake you up.

For an example, you get fitter from walking your dogs and your dogs get fitter as well, but you cannot really walk your cats. One more reason is that you could take long walks with your dogs but you cannot with your cat because they don’t like going for long walks!

Therefore I believe that dogs are better than cats! Woof!

Country Life is better than City Life! - Term 3 Week 4

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This is the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

County Life is better than City Life

I strongly believe that Country life is better than city life.

                                            Having Fun!

In the Countryside it is FUN because you can MAKE lots of tree-houses and play in them for EVER. Furthermore you can have sleepovers in the tree-house, go to creeks and take the Hinaki out and catch some eels. Another point is you get to throw stones into the river and watch them PLOP, or skim stones into rivers and watch them BOUNCE. My last reason is doing horse riding with your family and going to the creek and through the creek if the water is LOW!

                                                 Experience!

In the Country you can EXPERIENCE more stuff in your life like seeing animals that you haven’t seen before in your life. For an example you can experience more space because city life is so close together because there is more people. ( More Space in country life )

                                              Explore!

Another thing is that you can EXPLORE more in the country. You can play tag in the trees and EXPLORE the things that you don’t know about trees, like if you didn’t know that trees have sap in them and sometimes the sap comes out. One more thing is... that you EXPLORE the country.

I believe that country life is WAY better than city life, and I reckon that you should live there because it is GLORYUMPTIOUS!!!

Skimming Reading Strategy - Term 3 Week 2

SKIMMING!!!

WALT Skim an unknown text so that we can QUICKLY get an understanding of it.
I can decide if a book has useful information I need, or whether I want to read it for pleasure. 

These are the things I can do to skim read...
1. Look at the Title

2. Look at the Chapters 

3. You skim to look for key words

4. Look at the Blurb

5. Look at the pictures