Section outline

  •                                                                                EXPLORE / TŪHURA                                            

                                                                         REFLECT / WHAIWHAKAARO            

                                                                                      FOCUS / ARONGA                               

                                                                      FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

    We are REFLECTING on assessing the results from the asttle tests.

    We are FOCUSING on descriptive writing by explaining the effects of conventions in a written/visual text.

    We are EXPLORING articles by recognising texts that have multiples purposes and knowing the context of the creator helps us understand the purpose.

                                                                                           Success Criteria:

    • I can answer the questions on my asttle tests.
    • I can compose a range of text using language features effectively while sustaining a writing style which is appropriate for my audience.
    • I can identify the text’s creator and why the text has been created (purpose).

    Knows Covered:


    KNOW: Language works at both denotative and connotative levels. There is a gap between the language we choose to convey an idea and how the idea is understood. Our language choices and how we interpret language can reveal our values and beliefs.

    KNOW: As a text creator, I can contribute to national and global conversations through my original interpretations of texts and through the texts I create.


                                                                            Tuesday

    • You will complete the asttle reading tests which are assigned to you.
    • If you have finished your asttle reading tests you will work on your Reading Plus.

                                                                           Thursday

    • Firstly, you will watch the following   about unlocking visual storytelling.
    • Then on slide 5 of the "Visual Texts Writing Slideshow" you will see a picture. Then on the slide after that you will need to answer the questions which is written on it into your English books.
    • Afterwards, you will write a descriptive story about how the picture came to be in the first place and what will happen afterwards.
    • Finally, you will draw, label and colour your own picture and make a caption on it just like the example on the right.

                                                                                      Friday

    • Then you will read the article about tourism travel on slides 3 to 7 of the "Tourism Travel Vocabulary Slideshow." Highlight the words for "Task 1" on the article on the slideshow.
    • Afterwards, you will see a table of the words from “Task 1.” Draw the table into you books. Then write as many different words you can which have the same meaning as those words using the Thesaurus.
    • After that, write your own story about tourism travel using the words from task 2.
    • Finally, draw, label and colour a picture of what you have written about in your English books to AT LEAST A YEAR EIGHT STANDARD.