All about myself

All about myself

Pencil and paperOnline interactive
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about writing information with capital letters and full stops.

Question 1Change answer

rangitahi
 
Write about yourself in the space below.
Make sure you have written about all the information in the list below. 
  • First name
  • How old you are
  • Birthday month
  • Suburb you live in
  • The city/town or area you live in
  • The people in your whānau
  • The school you go to
  • Your favorite person (not best friend)
  • Your favourite book or TV show

Question 2Change answer

Read your writing and make any changes.
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with NO automarking) 
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
English, Creating meaning, Writing
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
punctuation, capital letters
Description of task: 
This task has students writing about themselves. Assessment focus: the use of capitals.
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:
  • use basic punctuation that is mostly correct, including punctuation of dialogue
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: encoding, sets 3-4
within the Writing Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
   

Y4 (09/2000)

All names of people have capital letters. There is one omission of a capital for a name.

2 correct -moderate 

1 correct -very easy

The birthday month has a capital letter.

easy

All parts of the street name have capital letters, e.g., "Fitzroy Street" or "RD 12." There is 1 error in the use of capitals in the street name, e.g., "Fitzroy street" or "Rd 12."

2 correct -difficult

1 correct -moderate

The name of the city or town has a capital letter.

easy

All parts of the school name have capitals, e.g., "Thorrington School." There is 1 error in the use of capitals in the school name, e.g., "Thorrington school."

2 correct -moderate 

1 correct -very easy

The title of the book or film has all capitalletters that are needed, e.g., "The Lord of theRings." There is 1 error in the use of capitals in the title.

2 correct -difficult

1 correct -moderate