Check Out This Great Analysis DLO

 Last week in Te Ngahere we did an ‘Analysis DLO’. We had to choose 3/6 texts, our options were: The Mouse, The Ship, The Man, Paper Planes, Winter Kingdom, and Bilbo Baggins but one of our texts had to be The Ship. I chose: The Mouse, The Ship and Bilbo Baggins. There were 3 sections for each text; the first section was that you had to find phrases/verbs/adverbs/vivid adjectives; the second was figurative language so any similes/metaphor/personification; the third one was a figurative device. At the end of every section it asked you ‘what mood or atmosphere did this create?’  The hardest part about this was trying to fix what was wrong without knowing what I had done wrong!  During this I learned what a concrete noun is; it's is something that you can either: see, touch, hear, smell or taste.

Do you do anything like this in your class?

Here it is!

Some T-Shaped I Absolutely LOVE

 For Panui (Reading) in Te Ngahere we do T-Shaped. We did this one to help us find show and not tell in a text.  The first thing we had to do was read the texts and answer some questions that we have to find show not tell for. After we had written all of our answers there was one last question at the bottom asking: which text created the most powerful images and feelings, explain why. The hard part about this was the last part because at the start I didn’t really understand what to do. The text I found the easiest was The Battle because it had an equal amount of both show and tell, it also had great vocabulary compared to the other two texts. 

What does your class do for reading?