Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

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This task is about reading acknowledgements and answering questions about them.
 

Acknowledgements

Learning Media Limited is grateful to the staff of ESR: Forensic, the New Zealand Police, and Crimewatch for their advice and assistance.

The photographs on pages 2-10 are by John Bellamy except the photograph on page 2, the third photograph on page 3 and that on page 8 which are by Karen Angus. The photographs on the inside cover, title page, and the background photograph on page 11 are by Kate Kunac. The photographs on page 21 and on the bottom of page 22 are by Mark Round.

Published for the Ministry of Education by
Learning Media Limited, Box 3293, Wellington, New Zealand.

A Safe Bet copyright © Leanne Radojkovich 1994
Stop Thief copyright © David Hill 1995
Crimewriter, Scene of the Crime, Fingerprints © Crown copyright 1995
The illustrations on pages 14-19 © Crown copyright 1994;
26-32 © Crown copyright 1995.
The photographs on pages 11-13 (except background photograph)
and 20-25 (except video stills) copyright © New Zealand Police; the
photographs by Karen Angus, Kate Kunac, and Mark Round © Crown
copyright; the photographs by John Bellamy copyright © ESR: Forensic.
Video stills, pages 24-5 copyright © TVNZ
This collection © Crown copyright 1995
All rights reserved. Enquiries should be made to the publisher.

Dewey 364.1
ISBN 0 478 02844 X
Item number 02844
 
 
 
 
Read the Acknowledgements page and answer the questions.
 
a)
Staff of which three organisations are thanked for their help?
 
 
1.
 
 
 
 
2.
 
 
 
 
3.
 
 
 
b)
The photographers have been mentioned twice.
What are two reasons they have been included in the acknowledgements?
 
 
1.
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.
 
 
 
 
 
c)
Who published the book?
 
 
 
d)
Apart from photographs, what two other types of visual image have been used in the book?
 
 
1.
 
 
 
 
 
2.
 
 
 
e)
Write the line from the page that would be most useful for finding the book in a library.
 
 
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper.
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Reading
Key Competencies: 
Thinking
Keywords: 
comprehension, locate information, information skills
Description of task: 
Students read acknowledgement text from a journal and answer questions about acknowledgements.
Curriculum Links: 
 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • use comprehension strategies
as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Acquiring and using information and ideas in informational texts, set 4
within the Reading Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y8 (08/1999)
a)
  • ESR: Forensic
  • New Zealand Police
  • TVNZ/Crimewatch
 easy
b)
  • to thank them
  • to note copyright
 2 correct – very difficult

1 correct – difficult
c) Learning Media Limited moderate
d)
  • video stills
  • illustrations
 2 correct – difficult

1 correct – moderate
e) Dewey 364.1 difficult