Content:
Listening Functions:
- Listen to and interact with others to clarify understanding of narrative, information, ideas and opinions, and to contribute to discussion, in one-to-one, small group and class discussions.
- Listen to texts, identify the purposes and recall and respond to the main ideas in a well structured, imaginative way.
Speaking Functions:
- Talk coherently in small and large groups about experiences, events, information, ideas and opinions, organizing material effectively, and questioning and supporting others.
- Using texts from several genres, narrate recite, read aloud, present, or perform, arranging material, and making meaning clear by using appropriate speech and delivery.
Reading Functions:
- Select and read independently, for enjoyment and information, different contemporary and historical texts, integrating and reading processes with ease.
- Discuss language, meanings and ideas in a range of texts, relating their understanding to experiences, purposes, audience and other texts.
Writing Functions:
- Write regularly and with ease to express personal responses to a range of experiences and texts, explore ideas and record observations
- Write on a variety of topics, shaping, editing and reworking texts in a range of genres
- Write instructions, explanations and factual accounts, and express and explain a point of view, in a range of authentic contexts
Viewing and presenting Functions:
- Respond to and discuss meanings, ideas and effects.
- Combine verbal and visual features to communicate information, ideas, or narrative through drama, video, computer, or other technologies and media
What skills will I learn?
- Reading
- Writing
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Evaluation
- Problem Solving
- Time Management
- Computer Skills
Where does this lead?
NCEA Level 1
Who can help me?
Mr G Van Buren
Mrs V Prasad
Mrs L Petersen