Caring for pets

Caring for pets

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Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about writing sentences from ideas in a brainstorm.
brainstorm about caring for pets
 
You have been part of a group that has brainstormed ideas about how to take good care of pets. The diagram above shows the group's ideas. 

Question 2Change answer

Write six sentences about how to take care of pets. Use the ideas from the brainstorm.
You don't need to use all the ideas from the brainstorm.
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3.  4. 
5.  6. 
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online.
Copyright: 
Graphic source: Clker
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
English, Creating meaning, Writing
Key Competencies: 
Thinking, Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
instructions, sentences, mind map, information skills, sentence structure
Description of task: 
Students use the ideas from a brainstorm to write six sentences about caring for pets.
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
  • create content that conveys ideas relating to the topic with some details
  • use a variety of sentences that are grammatically correct
 

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
Using writing to think and organise for learning, set 3
Writing meaningful text: text features, set 4
within the Writing Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y6 (05/1998)
Each sentence should:

  • be in sentence form.
  • raise a new point about caring for pets.
  • be drawn from the mind map.

caring-for-pets-brainstorm.png

      Example:

  • Make sure that your pet gets plenty of exercise/daily exercise or Pets need exercise.
  • Provide good shelter for your pet or Give your pet somewhere warm to sleep or Pets need shelter.
  • (You should) take your pet to the vet if it gets sick.
 6 sentences – difficult

5 sentences – easy

3-4 sentences – very easy
Consistent, appropriate use of capitals and fullstops. (Up to one error or omission acceptable across all sentences.) difficult