School Journal Story Library Activities Year 6 – Living the Dream
Description
We’ve put together a set of reading response and writing activities for the School Journal Story Library text: Living the Dream – An Interview with Mana Vautier.
This resource has everything you need to learn more about becoming an astronaut.
This School Journal Story Library text covers content great for Year 6 and has a reading level of Year 4.
In this School Journal Story Library text: Living the Dream – An Interview with Mana Vautier 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 activities: These activities challenge students to use higher-order thinking to synthesise their knowledge and create something new.
- Your Mission: Becoming an Astronaut (sequence graphic organiser) for students to re-read and organise the information from the text.
- Writing to Inform Writing Prompt: Follow Your Dreams
- Two writing planning sheets
Reading + Creativity + Text Structure + Writing Activities
These activities link directly to the new New Zealand English Curriculum.
