English,
Level
4/5
Students
learn to deconstruct and critically interrogate texts in order to understand
the power of language to enrich and shape their own and others' lives.
Achievement
Objectives
Listening,
reading, and viewing - Processes and strategies. Students will:
Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies confidently
to identify, form, and express ideas.
INDICATORS:
thinks critically about texts with increasing understanding and confidence
By using these
processes and strategies when listening, reading, or viewing, students
will:
Purposes
and audiences
Show an increasing understanding of how texts are shaped for different
purposes and audiences.
INDICATORS:
recognises and understands how texts are constructed for a range of
purposes, audiences, and situations
Ideas
Show an increasing understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond
texts.
INDICATORS:
makes meaning of increasingly complex texts by identifying and understanding
main and subsidiary ideas and the links between them
Language
features
Show an increasing understanding of how language features are used
for effect within and across texts.
INDICATORS:
understands how a range of text conventions work together to create
meaning and effect
knows that authors
have different voices and styles and can identify and describe some
of these differences.
Structure
Show an increasing understanding of text structures.
INDICATORS:
understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences, paragraphs,
and images contribute to and affect meaning in a range of texts
Speaking,
writing, and presenting
Processes
and strategies
Students will:
Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies confidently
to identify, form, and express ideas.
INDICATORS:
creates a range of texts by integrating sources of information and
processing strategies with increasing confidence
seeks feedback
and makes changes to texts to improve clarity, meaning, and effect
By using these
processes and strategies when speaking, writing, or presenting, students
will:
Purposes
and audiences
Show an increasing understanding of how to shape texts for different
purposes and audiences.
INDICATORS:
constructs texts that show an awareness of purpose and audience through
deliberate choice of content, language, and text form
Ideas
Select, develop, and communicate ideas on a range of topics.
INDICATORS:
forms and communicates ideas and information clearly, drawing on a
range of sources
adds or changes
details and comments to support ideas, showing thoughtful selection
in the process
ideas show increasing
awareness of a range of dimensions or viewpoints.
Language
features
Use a range of language features appropriately, showing an increasing
understanding of their effects.
INDICATORS:
uses a range of vocabulary to communicate precise meaning
uses a range
of text conventions, including grammatical conventions, appropriately,
effectively, and with increasing accuracy.
Structure
Organise texts, using a range of appropriate structures.
INDICATORS:
achieves some coherence and wholeness when constructing texts
organises and
develops ideas and information for a particular purpose or effect,
using the characteristics and conventions of a range of text forms.
Social
studies - level
4/5 -
the strands of:
Time, Continuity
and Change - Relationships between people and events through time;
and Interruptions of these relationships and Culture
and Heritage - The
contribution of culture and heritage to identity; and The nature and
consequences of cultural interaction.
Achievement
Objectives
Students will gain
knowledge, skills, and experience to:
Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and
challenges for people, places, and environments.
Understand that
events have causes and effects.
Understand how
the ideas and actions of people in the past have had a significant
impact on people's lives.
Understand how
people seek and have sought economic growth through business, enterprise,
and innovation.
Suggested Teaching
Purposes:
To inform students about significant Otago and international events
from one hundred years ago
To support students in using comprehension strategies (particularly
making connections, asking questions, summarising, identifying the
main idea, and evaluating) to:
- develop their
understanding of the significance of past events and of the impact
that those events have had on people
- develop their
awareness of changes over time
To encourage rich discussion
To motivate students to carry out research about the topics depicted
and other events from the past hundred years.
Provide opportunities
for discussing changes in a newspaper design including layout, and
illustrations
