Literacy Ladder Writers Note Book Task

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For my Literacy Ladder ( writers note book task for this week) we had to write a list of cool sentence staters. I tried to make mine as suspenseful as possible so the reader would get hooked in straight away.  I highlighted the things Blue I wanted to work on and, in green the things I liked.
Here they are:

Literacy Ladder T4 Pre Reading Follow Up Task

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Yesterday my class looked at some books  on a survey and chose what three books we would like to read for the term. We also had to read the blurb of the book and look at each of the books covers. We didn't read each of the ten chapter books my teacher just took a photo of a random page and we to read that. The three books I liked the most was:

1. The Place We Call Home 
2. Inside The Game 
3. Petronas

I got my second choice, Inside the game.

Today we had to do a pre reading follow up task we had to asses the cover design, blurb and title and think about what the book might be about and why we chose the book and why it interested us.

Here is the cover of Inside The Game:

Today We Had To: 

Asses the cover design blurb and title: Here are some of the questions I had to answer.

• * 1 What made me chose the book?
• *2 Why and what appeals to me about this book?
• *3 What hooked me in?
• *4 What did we like about the title?
• *5 My predictions about the book?
• *6 What did I like about the front cover?

*1 What Made Me Chose This Book
What Made me chose this book: It sounded like a different story from anything I had ever read before. 

*2 Why and what appeals to me about this book
When I read the ''Grimm's Fairy Tails " Some of my favourite stories in that book were ones's about Princesses and castles, I thought this story Inside The game  would have a cool modern twist to it

*3 What hooked me in
The blurb really intrigued me and the three objects on the front cover, made me want to discover what the were about...

*4 -The Title seems interesting, and I want to know what it refers to. Also why are there pictures of random objects on the front cover? 

*5 -My Predictions About The Book: Exciting, and Scary I don't think I will be sure of the outcome. I also think that the book would come under fantasy. I also think that there will be lots of different scenes throughout the story.  

*6 -  The Front Cover: I wanted to know what the three objects were about and what was the connection to the story. Also  Modern day vs olden days (castles and princesses). 

Reading Follow Up Task.

Description:
This term my reading goal is summarizing and we have been reading lots of long stories and summarizing/picking out key details/the main points to summarize a story. As our school production is all about creating a wearable art garment we read all about the famous show WOW ( World Of Wearable Arts) and how it originated/all about what has happened to it over the years. We read this story and wrote out in our books the:

• Who
• What
• When
• Why 
• How 

Structure/format (it really helps me pick out the key details). After writing down all of that I wrote my summary.

Here it is:
In rural nelson in 1987 Suzie Moncrieff decided to follow her dreams/passion and Create a show could WOW. (World Of Wearable Arts). With the help of Eelco Boswijk who gave her 1,000 dollars to kick start the event. The only trouble was people didn't quite get her art body concept, some entering colorful knitwear instead! But fortunately there was enough interest/support to take her dream a whole lot further... Over the years the show got bigger and bigger each year, with categories such as Avant-Garde, South Pacific, Man unleashed and the judges personal favourite, Bizarre-bra. In 2000 WOW also became international with people all round the globe attending and entering their costumes! Because the show was getting so big and could no longer fit in the small Nelson theaters, It was announced in 2004 that it would move to Wellington in 2005.  
Since WOW has moved to Wellington, the audience has increased by 50% and now more that 35,000 people attend the show each year! 

Images:

This was the 2009 Winner 

Entirely made out of Wood

A butterfly illusen