Year(s)

Level(s)

Duration

Teacher

Classroom

6

Select the Strand and then the Achievement Objective(s) to be assessed

o  Listening Reading Viewing

Processes and strategies

Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies to identify, form, and express increasingly sophisticated ideas with confidence and deliberation.

Recognises, understands, and explains the connections between oral, written, and visual language.

Integrates oral, visual, and written sources of information and prior knowledge confidently to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts.

Uses appropriate processing and comprehension strategies with confidence.

Thinks critically about texts.

Monitors, self-evaluates, and describes progress, articulating what they are learning.

Purposes and audiences

Show a developed understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes

and audiences.

Identifies and explains 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 motivations.

Identifies particular points of view and evaluates the reliability and usefulness of texts.

Ideas

Reach considered understandings about ideas within, across, and beyond texts.

Makes meaning by understanding comprehensive ideas.

Makes connections by interpreting ideas within a text, between texts, and with personal, social, cultural, literary, political, or historical contexts.

Makes and supports inferences from texts with increasing independence.

Incorporates supporting details.

Language features

Reach considered understandings about language features within and across texts.

Has an increasing vocabulary that can be used to make meaning of texts.

Identifies a range of oral, written, and visual language features and understands their effects on text.

Understands and interprets how text conventions work together to create meaning and impact.

Incorporates supporting details.

Structure

Show a developed understanding of a range of structures.

Identifies and understands the characteristics and conventions of a range of text forms and how they contribute to and affect text meaning. 

 o  Speaking, Writing, Presenting

 Processes and strategies

Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies to identify, form, and express increasingly sophisticated ideas with confidence and deliberation.

Uses an increasing knowledge of connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts.

Creates a range of increasingly varied and complex texts by integrating oral, written, and visual sources of information.

Seeks feedback and makes changes to texts to improve clarity and meaning.

Is reflective about the production of their own texts: monitors and self-evaluates progress, articulating what they are learning.

Purposes and audiences

Show a developed understanding of how to shape texts for different audiences and purposes.

Through deliberate choice of content, language, and text form, constructs a range of texts that demonstrate an understanding 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.

Ideas

Develop and communicate selected, considered ideas on a range of topics.

Develops and communicates comprehensive ideas, information, and understandings on a range of experiences or in response to texts.

Ideas show a depth and awareness of a range of dimensions or viewpoints.

Works towards creating coherent, planned whole texts by adding details to single ideas or linking those ideas to other ideas and details.

Incorporates supporting details.

Language features

Select and use a range of language features appropriately for a variety of effects.

Uses an increasing vocabulary to create precise meaning.

Uses a wide range of oral, written, and visual language features with control to create meaning and impact and to sustain interest.

Uses a wide range of text conventions appropriately, effectively, and with accuracy.

Structure

Organise texts, using a range of appropriate, coherent, and effective structures.

Using characteristics and conventions of a range of text forms, organises and develops ideas and information for a particular purpose or effect.

Specific Learning Outcomes

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

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

Write the Achievement Objective (s) to be assessed:

Students will:

Specific Learning Outcomes

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

Setting

oNew Zealand   oRekohu (The Chatham Islands)   oAsia 

oAustralia         oAmericas                                oGlobal

Perspective:      o The Past (History)       o The Present (Current Issues)           oThe Future.

                           o Multicultural        oIndigenous people       oEquality         oRights       oGender    

Key Competencies focus:

(Select only those being focussed on)

o managing self

o relating to others

o participating and contributing

o thinking

o using language, symbols, and texts.

Teaching and Learning Activities

Resources

Assessment Schedule

Unit Evaluation