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Unit Title:
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Year(s) |
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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 confidently
to identify, form, and express ideas.
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Recognises, understands, and describes the connections between oral,
written, and visual language.
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Integrates oral, visual, and written sources of information and
prior knowledge confidently to make sense of increasingly varied and
complex texts.
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Uses
appropriate processing and comprehension strategies with confidence.
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Is
developing the ability to think critically about texts.
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Monitors, self-evaluates, and describes progress, articulating what
they are learning.
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 describes 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.
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Identifies particular points of view and evaluates the reliability
and usefulness of texts.
Ideas
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Show understandings of ideas within, across, and beyond texts.
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Makes
meaning of increasingly varied and complex ideas.
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Identifies and understands main and subsidiary ideas and the links
between them.
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Makes
connections by thinking about underlying ideas in and between texts
and with personal, social, cultural, literary, political, or
historical contexts.
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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 increased understanding of how language features are used for
effect within and across texts.
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Has an
increasing vocabulary that can be used to make meaning of texts.
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Identifies oral, written, and visual 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 and effectively.
Structure
Show an increasing understanding of text structures.
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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 understands 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 confidently
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 confidently.
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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 of how to shape texts 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 a developing 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
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Form and communicate selected ideas on a range of topics.
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Forms
and communicates ideas and information clearly and precisely,
drawing on a range of sources.
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Is able
to add or change details and comments showing thoughtful selection
in the process.
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Uses
supporting details.
Language features
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Use a range of language features appropriately, showing an understanding
and appreciation of their effect.
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Uses a
increasing vocabulary to create precise meaning.
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Uses a
range of oral, written, and visual features to create meaning and
impact and to sustain interest.
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Uses a
range of text conventions appropriately, effectively, and with
increasing accuracy.
Structure
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Organise texts for particular purpose or effect, using a range of
appropriate and coherent structures.
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Achieves
some coherence or wholeness in constructing texts.
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Organises and sequences ideas and information for a particular
purpose or effect.
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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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