From Meeting 2 - Travel Tracer

written and drawn by Georgia

From Meeting 2 - Creative Connector

written by Layne

From Meeting 2 - Summariser

written by Trent

From Meeting 2 - Summariser

written by Nathan

From Meeting 1 - Creative Connector

written by Courtney

From Meeting 1 - Travel Tracer

drawn by Joshua

From Meeting 1 - The Discussion Director

(W.A.L.T.) to generate a variety of questions on a piece of text

So this week we have been reading chapters 1-3 so can the summariser please read out what you have written...Thankyou for sharing that with us .

Now can I get you to put on your red thinking hat and turn to page 5 and can you please tell me what you think Keith must have felt like when Owen the milkman said that’s not the colour I would have chosen?

Now will the travel tracer please share….. Thank you.

Now can you put on your yellow thinking hat and tell me what do you think the benefits of having a bright shop are?

Now will the plot organiser please show us what you have been doing…. Thankyou.

Now can you put on your black thinking hat and tell me the bad things about having a bright shop?

Now will the creative connector please share… Thankyou.

Now will you put on your blue hat and turn to page 6 and tell me what you think Keith’s mum was thinking when she just stood there looking at him?

Now will the character tracer please show us what you have been working on… Thankyou .

Now can you put on your white hat and tell me what colour Keith painted the shop?

Now will the vocabulary enricher please share… Thankyou.

Now can you put on your green hat and turn to page 1 and tell me where do you think dad went when Keith said dad will be back at about 8 where do you think he went?

Now will the literacy wizard please show us what you have been working on… Thankyou

written by Trent

From Meeting 1 - Literacy Wizard

written by Nathan

From Meeting 1 - Summariser

I am learning to: summarise a piece of text. I will be successful when I can provide a brief summary of part of a story.

In the first 3 chapters we are introduced to a 12 year old boy named Keith. He is always trying to cheer his parents up.

His latest idea to make things a little more cheerful around his home didn’t go to plan. Keith’s parents didn’t exactly like the tropical mango orange paint and decided to explain to him why they weren’t happy all the time like they used to be. His dad told Keith that when they opened the fish & chip shop there was only 1 curry place and them. But now there is 3 curry places, McDonalds, Kentucky Fried, Spud-U-Like, the pub bistro and two other fish & chip shops! Their shop just wasn’t as popular as it used to be and wasn’t making as much money! But the message wasn’t really clear enough for Keith.
Now he is planning his next attempt to finally take the misery guts out of his Mum and Dad!!!!!

written by Georgia

Misery Guts

We are studying this novel in our class literature circle. During this time we take on different roles so that we can discuss, share opinions, debate and think in depth about our book, Misery Guts by Morris Gleitzman.

Our roles will be:

Discussion Director - leads the discussion
Summariser - summarises assigned chapters
Travel Tracer - represents a piece of text as a diagram
Plot Organiser - matches parts of the story to the structure
Creative Connector - finds connections between reading and real life
Literacy Analyst - finds language features in the text
Character Tracer - finds and describes character traits
Vocabulary Enricher - finds and defines important words in reading
Literacy Wizard - locate text for deeper thinking