Te Kete Ipurangi Navigation:

Te Kete Ipurangi
Communities
Schools

Te Kete Ipurangi user options:

English Online. Every child literate - a shared responsibility.

Language is a manipulator

TEACHER Marie Stribling

 

YEAR

NCEA LEVEL

DURATION

13 3 3-4 weeks

 

Achievement Standard Being Assessed

Achievement Criteria

AS90726 (English 3.7): Complete independent research on a language or literature topic and present findings in written form
  • Propose research questions that expand understandings of a topic
  • Select relevant information from a range of referenced resources
  • Present well supported findings

 

Teacher background reading

Introduction

"Language is a manipulator" is a language research unit which will not only help students meet AS90726 (English 3.7): Complete independent research on a language or literature topic and present findings in written form , but it will also help develop their information literacy.

The unit models process (RTF 178KB) to students and steps them through the process so that, by the end of the modelled unit, students will be able to choose their own topic for independent research and to follow through the research process, culminating in the writing of a report on their own topic.

Teaching and learning activities

Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:

To meet the requirements of the standard, students need to be able to construct new understandings from their findings. Following a defined research process will give students a way of building up ideas which they can then turn into logical and creative conclusions.

The Research Process consists of 8 stages:

  1. Establishing prior knowledge
  2. brainstorming (RTF 180KB)
  3. mapping (RTF 10KB)
  4. questions (RTF 10KB)
  5. keywords (RTF 10KB)
  6. scan_skim (RTF 8KB)
  7. report (RTF 6KB)
  8. evaluating (RTF 6KB)

Assessment

assessment_task (RTF 5KB)
Assessment schedule
exemplar_a (RTF 123KB)

exemplar_b (RTF 114KB)

exemplar_c (RTF 111KB)

exemplar_d (RTF 109KB)

Footer:

New Zealand Government

© Crown copyright.