Web1

Te Whāinga
This activity helps students to gather and record information; it supports the development of research skills.

Ngā Rautaki Whakaaro

Gathering information, recalling, generating facts or concepts.
He Kupu Matua mō te Mahi
Whakamārama, kohikohi mō hiotanga, whakarōpū .

Te Mahi
The web is used as an advance organiser to gather what is already known by the students about the topic via
brainstorming, think-pair-share2 or silent roundtable brainstorm3 activities.

He Rauemi Tautoko
 Create an outline for a semantic web4.
 A copy of the text for each pair.
 A blank piece of paper for each pair.

Te Ara Tohutohu
1. Organise students into pairs.
2. Show a web on the board and model how to use the web.
3. If you are using a key word, discuss this with students.
4. Have students draw a web on their blank piece of paper and in the middle of their web instruct
students to write the key word or the topic.
5. Before students begin to read the text, introduce the topic.
6. Have students read the first paragraph of the text to find examples of the key word or topic in the
reading material supplied.
7. Ask some of the students to share what they have found.
8. Instruct students to carry on reading the text and to record the information that they think is
important in their web.
9. Ask each pair to join with another pair to share their webs.
10. In groups, have them consider what their group thinks is the most important information that has
been gathered and why they think this.
11. Have a student from each group share the group’s ideas with the class as you record the class ideas
on a class web. If an idea has already been given that is the same, explain to students that it is not
necessary to share it again.
12. Have each student share with his or her group what they think they did well in the gathering of
information step and how they think they could improve their skill at doing this.

1 Adapted from Bellanca (2007, p. 8).

2 See pp. 236–237.
3 See p. 260.
4 See page 69 of the He Manu Tuhituhi foundation manual Ka Rere te Manu ki te Ao Tuhituhi.