School Journal Story Library Activities Year 6 – Breathless (Asthma)
Description
We’ve put together a set of reading response and writing activities for the School Journal Story Library text: Breathless by Bernard Beckett.
Breathless is a first-person narrative about a boy who struggles with asthma. His friends use humour and adventure to help him cope with the disappointment of not being able to play an important rugby game because of his illness.
This School Journal Story Library text is great for Year 6 and has a Year 4 reading level.
In this School Journal Story Library: Breathless resource, 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.
- Breathless: Break-it-down task for students to re-read and organise the information from the text.
- Writing to Entertain Writing Prompt:
- Three writing planning sheets
Reading + Creativity + Text Structure + Writing Activities
These activities link directly to the new New Zealand English Curriculum.
