Year(s)

Level(s)

Duration

Teacher

Classroom

8

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, precision, and refinement.

Recognises, understands, and evaluates 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 and discrimination.

Thinks critically about texts.

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

Purposes and audiences

Show a discriminating understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.

Identifies and evaluates 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 developed, considered, and insightful understandings about ideas across and beyond texts.

Makes meaning by thinking critically about sophisticated ideas.

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

Makes and supports inferences from texts independently.

Integrates supporting details.

Language features

Reach developed, considered, and insightful 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 sophisticated oral, written, and visual language features and understands their effects on text.

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

Integrates supporting details.

Structure

Show a discriminating understanding of a range of structures.

Identifies, understands, and evaluates the characteristics and conventions

o  Speaking, Writing, Presenting

Processes and strategies

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

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

Creates a range of increasingly coherent, 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 discriminating 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 and appreciation 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, communicate, and sustain selected, considered, and insightful ideas on a range of topics.

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

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

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

Integrates supporting details.

Language features

Select, integrate, and sustain the use of 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 coherently, fluently, and with control to create meaning.

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

Structure

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

Using characteristics and conventions of a range of text forms with control and refinement, 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