At the end of this unit, students will produce a piece of writing within 25 minutes under examination conditions based on an oral or visual text studied in class. This achievement standard is assessed externally in an end of year examination. The purpose of this activity is to prepare students for this external assessment. This unit is designed to be used after an oral or visual text study. It provides students with a framework for constructing answers.
Students can work through the unit at their own pace.
As their confidence and skills increase they use less of the framework in their writing and structure their own writing independent of teacher input. Teachers are directed to the Assessment Notes contained in the Achievement Standard . This activity will prepare you for the external assessment at the end of the year. Add to the existing annotations by highlighting, underlining and ticking points, examples and explanations in each exemplar. In exemplar B and exemplar C identify sections where a thoughtful or perceptive understanding is evident.