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Unit Title:
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Year(s) |
Level(s) |
Duration |
Teacher |
Classroom |
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Select
the Strand and then the Achievement Objective(s) to be assessed and delete the
rest.
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Listening Reading Viewing |
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Processes and strategies
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Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies with
increasing confidence to identify, form, and express ideas.
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Recognises and understands the connections between oral, written,
and visual language.
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Integrates oral, visual, and written sources of information and
prior knowledge with increased confidence to make sense of
increasingly varied and complex texts.
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Uses a
range of processing strategies to cross-check meaning and confirm
predictions.
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Is
developing the ability to think critically about texts.
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Monitors, self-evaluates, and describes progress with increasing
confidence.
Purposes and audiences
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Show an understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and
audiences.
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Identifies and understands how texts are constructed for a variety
of intentions, situations, and levels of formality and for
individuals or groups with varying characteristics and determinants,
such as backgrounds, interests, and motivation.
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Identifies particular points of view and evaluates the reliability
and usefulness of texts.
Ideas
Show an understanding of ideas, within, across, and beyond texts.
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Recognises and identifies ideas within, across, and beyond a range
of texts.
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Makes
meaning of increasingly varied and complex ideas.
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Identifies main and subsidiary ideas.
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Starts
to make connections by thinking about underlying ideas in and
between texts.
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Makes
and supports inferences from texts with increasing independence.
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Uses
supporting details.
Language features
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Show an increasing understanding of how language features are used
within and across texts.
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Has an
increasing vocabulary that can be used to make meaning of text.
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Identifies oral, written, and visual language features used and
recognises their effects.
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Shows an
increasing knowledge of how a range of text conventions can be used
appropriately.
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Knows
that authors and illustrators have different voices and styles and
can identify some of these differences.
Structure
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Show an understanding of text structure.
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Understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences,
paragraphs, and images contribute to and affect text meaning.
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Identifies an increasing range of text forms and recognises some of
their features.
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Speaking,
Writing, Presenting |
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Processes and strategies
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Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies with
increasing confidence to identify, form, and express ideas.
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Uses an
increasing knowledge of the connections between oral, written, and
visual language when creating texts.
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Creates
a range of texts by integrating oral, written, and visual sources of
information with increasing confidence.
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Seeks
feedback and makes changes to texts to improve clarity and meaning.
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Is
reflective about the production of their own texts: monitors and
self-evaluates progress, articulating what they are learning.
Purposes and
audiences
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Show an understanding that texts are shaped for different purposes and
audiences.
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Through
deliberate choice of content, language, and text form, constructs a
range of texts that demonstrate an awareness of a variety of
intentions, situations, and levels of formality and of individuals
or groups with varying characteristics and determinants, such as
backgrounds, interests, and motivations.
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Conveys
and sustains personal voice where appropriate.
Ideas
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Form and communicate ideas on a range of topics.
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Forms
and expresses ideas and information with increased clarity, often
drawing on personal experience and knowledge.
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Is able
to add or change details and comments, showing some selectivity in
the process.
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Uses
supporting details.
Language features
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Use language features appropriately, showing an understanding of their
effect.
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Uses an
increasing vocabulary to create meaning.
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Uses
oral, written, and visual language features to create impact and
engage interest.
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Demonstrates good understanding of all basic sounds and patterns in
written English.
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Uses a
range of text conventions appropriately, effectively, and with
increasing accuracy, including most grammatical conventions.
Structure
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Organise texts, using a range of appropriate and coherent structures.
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Additional Curriculum areas
o Technology
o Learning Languages
o Arts
o Science
o Te Reo
o Maths
o Health and P.E.
o Social Sciences |
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Specific Learning Outcomes
By the end
of this unit, students will be able to:
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Setting |
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Key
Competencies focus:
(Select only those being focused on) |
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managing self
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relating to others
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participating and contributing
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thinking
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