Reading Learning story

Brooklyn’s Term 1 Reading Learning Story

How do we make meaning from the texts we read using a range of reading strategies?

I chose this Library book to read at silent, sustained reading time because I want to learn about farms and farming.
I located information in the story that told me Ben takes Midgee the pony for a swim and Midgee the pony looks upset but she really likes cooling off in the lake. I located this information by skimming and scanning.
I worked out that the lake might be a bit cold.  I used the clues, “Midgee looks a bit upset…”
I found out that an important idea in the story is that Ben & Mark use sticks from a young manuka tree and the bark is rubbed off by a blade of a hunting knife then the sticks become smooth and dark.The sticks are used for walking on scree slopes and for stability. It is important because the sticks are helping Ben & Mark so they don’t fall.
I used what I know about farming- that there are mountain farms and farms out in the country and ideas from the story where Ben and Mark’s Dad is the manager of Mount White Station to work out that Mount White Station is a big farm.
I enjoyed this book because it had heaps of information about Ben and Mark and about farms too.
Here is a screencastify of me reading some of my book  (You don’t have to show your face if you don’t want to) Video