The school bike racks

The school bike racks

Pencil and paperOnline interactive
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about writing a report on a problem.
Background
The school's bike racks are not working as intended for students who cycle to school. Your class came up with these ideas about what is wrong.
 
School-bike-racks.png
 
Your task is to write a report for your principal. The report will need to tell the principal what is wrong with the bike racks. It will also give reasons for the problems, and suggest ways of fixing them.
Write your report in full sentences. You may use some or all of the ideas in the brainstorm above or make up your own ideas.

Question 1Change answer

To The Principal
From Room 3
Date
Subject/Title Improving the school's bike racks
Process Our class met last Thursday to talk about the bike racks. We made notes on the whiteboard and I was given the job of completing the report.
The problems
Reason for the problems
Suggestions for fixing the problems
From: 
Task administration: 
This task can be completed online or with pencil and paper.
Copyright: 
Pixabay | kalhh | Public Domain
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
English, Creating meaning, Writing
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
reports, fluency, organisation, audience, structure and language, sentence structure
Description of task: 
Students write a report which gives details about a problem, gives reasons for the problem, and suggests how it might be fixed.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students’ ability to create texts to meet the writing demands of the New Zealand Curriculum.
 

Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • choose effective content, language, and text structure
as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Writing meaningful text: text features, set 5
within the Writing Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y8 (11/1998)
Fluency
All sentences are easy to understand. All spelling is correct.
Most sentences are easy to understand. Most spelling is correct.
Some sentences are easy to understand. Some spelling is correct.
3 marks – difficult

2 marks – moderate

1 mark – very easy

Organisation
All ideas are clearly and logically written within and across sections.
Most ideas are clearly and logically written within and across sections.
Some ideas are clearly and logically written within and across sections.
3 marks – very difficult

2 marks – difficult

1 marks – easy