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Junior Journal 54, Level 2, 2017
PDFs of all the texts in this issue of the Junior Journal are available online as well as teacher support materials (TSM) and audio for the following:
TSM Audio Stories Zapped! Chapter 3: Fun Time! ✔ ✔ Staying Afloat ✔ ✔ Poems In the Manawatū Articles Life Jackets ✔ ✔ Fingerprints ✔ ✔ Look inside this issue
Fingerprints
by Iona McNaughton
This article explains how police find and take fingerprints from a crime scene and use them to help solve the crime. The article gives an insight into the work of a fingerprint expert. It includes instructions about how students can take their own fingerprints.
Series: Junior Journal 54, Level 2, 2017
Learning area: English, Science, Social Sciences, Technology
Colour wheel level: Gold
Curriculum level: 2
Reading year level: 1
Category: Non-fiction
Related titles: Listed in TSM
In: Junior Journal 54, Level 2, 2017
Publication date: March 2017
Staying Afloat
by Feana Tu‘akoi
illustrations by Fraser Williamson
This humorous story has a serious message. When Grandad takes Vika and Kele out on his boat, he insists that the children wear life jackets and tells them a story from his childhood in Tonga that explains why.
Series: Junior Journal 54, Level 2, 2017
Learning area: English, Health and Physical Education
Colour wheel level: Gold
Curriculum level: 2
Reading year level: 1
Category: Fiction
Related titles: Listed in TSM
In: Junior Journal 54, Level 2, 2017
Publication date: March 2017
Zapped! Chapter 3: Fun Time!
by Renata Hopkins
illustrations by Scott Pearson
This is the third of four chapters in a humorous science-fiction story designed to “hook” year 3 students into reading chapter books. In the story so far, twins Tai and Ana have made a robot (Tidy-Bot) for the school science fair, but when the robot is zapped by lightning and comes to life, they face a series of dilemmas.
Series: Junior Journal 54, Level 2, 2017
Learning area: English
Curriculum level: 2
Reading year level: 3
Category: Fiction
Related titles: Listed in TSM
In: Junior Journal 54, Level 2, 2017
Publication date: March 2017
Life Jackets
by Katy Jordan
This report outlines the history of life jacket development and explains how life jackets help keep people safe.
Series: Junior Journal 54, Level 2, 2017
Learning area: English, Health and Physical Education, Technology
Colour wheel level: Gold
Curriculum level: 2
Reading year level: 1
Category: Non-fiction
Related titles: Listed in TSM
In: Junior Journal 54, Level 2, 2017
Publication date: March 2017
In the Manawatū
by Alan Bagnall
illustration by Giselle Clarkson
"Have you heard what we do in the Manawatū when forecasters tell us that flooding is due?"
Series: Junior Journal 54, Level 2, 2017
Learning area: English
Curriculum level: 2
Reading year level: 3
Category: Fiction
In: Junior Journal 54, Level 2, 2017
Publication date: March 2017