Read away

Teacher Phil Coogan

YEAR	LEVEL	DURATION
9-10	3-6	3 weeks

Achievement Objective Being Assessed	Learning Outcomes
Close Reading	Discuss language, meanings and ideas in a self-chosen narrative text relating their understanding to experience purposes and audience.
Transactional Writing	Using a reviewing style appropriate for publication, evaluate a narrative text for an audience of peers.
Processes
Exploring Language	Identify, discuss and use the conventions and language features of a narrative text and discuss how they relate to the topic.
Supporting Achievement Objective	Learning Outcomes
Personal Reading	Select and read independently, for enjoyment and information, a narrative text, integrating reading processes and using a variety of reading strategies.
Viewing	Respond to and discuss various meanings, ideas and effects in a chosen book cover, describing how verbal and visual features are combined to present the book to its audience.
NCEA Link
Assessment:	Formative
Achievement Standard:	AS90054 (English 1.3): Read, study and understand an extended written text.

See the activity for unit standard 8808 Wide Reading which this unit could contribute to.

Teacher background reading

Introduction

This unit is designed to allow students within a junior secondary class to choose fiction or non fiction texts to complete this self-paced and self directed assignment.