Persuasive writing - Term 3 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 are better than cats!!!

In my opinion I recommend that dogs are better than cats.

The most important thing about dogs being better than cats is because they help you and people. They also keep your house safe when someone that may be a stranger or a friend comes over and you are not home then they have to go away or call you and ask when you are back. Dogs are also good for tracking burglars and other people trying to put drugs in suitcases or in their pockets. Also dogs can help people that may have problems with their sight or are blind, dogs can help people that are in danger, dogs can get a person if they have a fire.      

Therefore, I think that dogs listen when you ask them to do something because they will do it straight away. If you ask them to go and get the pig's ear (which is a toy ) they will go and get it for you. I also think when dogs need something that is lost they will go and find it with their smell.

I also recommend that dogs are very playful, they don’t kill native birds they don’t even kill a little fly. Dogs will stay with you, they won't tug on the lead or make you have to run ( only if they're trained well.) So now you have heard about dogs are better pets than cats you may be persuaded to get a dog and have it as a pet.

Finally, dogs are better pets than cats so maybe this is what makes you want to make New Zealand a better place.        

Country Life is better than City Life - Term 3 Term 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

I think country life is better than city life

In my opinion I think that country life is better than city life  

I think that country life is better than city life because there are more native trees and plants. I believe that native trees could be used for huts and I also believe that plants could be used for hide and go seek and other games.

You can experience different things about plants, you may think to yourself one day, I wonder what this plant is called and that would be amazing to find out about. You also may find sticks, leaves, pine cones etc. Then you could make wall hangings or something for your parents.

You can also learn new things that you never knew about. You can explore the countryside and go down massive streams and waterfalls.  When you are having long walks you may find little creatures and big ones.  You might find ladybirds, caterpillars, hedgehogs etc. Maybe you would think to your self I think that country life is better than city life too.

I think that country life is better than city life.

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 contents.
~3~ Read five words then you know if you like it or not.
~4~ Look for key words.
~5~ Read the blurb.