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As part of our independent reading programme we use Kiwikidsnews to learn about news in New Zealand (national news) and around the world (international news).

Walht:  Read closely to analyse an article and to think critically about the messages within them.

Thinking:

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

In this interesting and amazing article, it tells us about the Austrian airline took 8 minutes.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

This article took place at Austria where the international airplane took 8 minutes to fly to their destination.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

This event happened on November the 7th 2016. Hopefully in the future all planes will go much more faster instead of hours sitting on the plane.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

This took place because of the idea that this plane is the fastest plane arriving within 8 minutes.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

Conditions- Situations.

Recently- Lately just happened.

Distance- space between two points or things.

Oh no, there is a big explosion!

A big volcano in Indonesia erupted in 1883. It was reported as one of the loudest recorded in history. The Krakatoa eruption created an amount of ash cloud that covered the whole earth for about 5 years. A total amount of 40,000 people died at that time.

WALT: understand news around the world.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I retell an article in my own words.