Worth reading
Teacher Mike Fowler
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NCEA LEVEL
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SUGGESTED DURATION
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| 11
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1
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3 weeks
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| Achievement Standard Being Assessed
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Achievement Criteria
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AS90054 (English 1.3): Read, study and show understanding of extended written text(s)
(Formative assessment as this achievement standard is assessed externally)
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Guidelines for use
Students will independently read and study self selected [and teacher approved] extended texts. They will then plan and write about their responses to ideas, issues or themes from their texts. Through their writing, students will show the understandings they have developed that go 'beyond their texts'. Based on examples chosen from their selected texts, students will write about what the texts have shown or taught them. Their writing is in preparation for the externally assessed achievement standard AS90054 (English 1.3): Read, study and show understanding of extended written text(s)
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The text types students can write on for AS90054 include novels, non fiction, drama scripts, or extended hyperfiction. The teacher might decide to offer students:
- a selection of extended texts that share a common theme
- a choice from several short sets of titles
- texts from a particular genre
- an open text choice.
Possible local adaptation
Where local adaptations are made, teachers and schools should ensure that they have:
- checked that the adapted assessment validly assesses the standard;
- checked the copyright status of any material imported into the assessment resource;
- complied with all internal and external quality assurance requirements.
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Learning task 3
Learning task 4
To learn something new, students need to make connections between what is known and what is unknown. They need a peg on which to hang new learning. Helping students to recall what they know is the first step in this process.
Student Instructions
In this activity you will independently read and study a self selected [and teacher approved] extended text. You will then plan and write about your response to ideas, issues or themes from your text. Based on examples chosen from your selected text, you will write about what the text has shown you or made you think about.
Your writing will be at least 300 words long.
Before you begin writing, you will look at techniques you could use to develop your own writing effectively.
Your work is in preparation for the externally assessed achievement standard AS90054 (English 1.3): Read, study and show understanding of extended written text(s)
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Assessment
See Achievement Standard 90054 Read, study and show understanding of extended written text(s)
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Writing completed as part of this unit could also be developed for assessment as one of two pieces required for unit standard 8812 Produce transactional writing in simple forms. See the Out of their comfort zones
activity.
