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This task is about using a contents page to identify where to go in a book for specific information.
 
Windsurfing contents page
 
 

Use the contents page from "Windsurfing" to answer the questions that follow.

a) What two chapters would you read to learn about the basics of windsurfing? (Circle your answer)

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

 
b) To find out about the history of windsurfing, what chapter would be most useful? (Circle your answer)

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

 
c) Advanced skills are covered in what three chapters? (Circle your answer)

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

 
d) To drive a car or ride a bike we need to know the rules of the road. What chapter would give the rules of the sea? (Circle your answer)

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

 
e) What chapter would give you information about the types of boards you can buy? (Circle your answer)

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

 
f) What chapter would most likely provide information about windsurfing in other countries? (Circle your answer)

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

 
g) What are two ways the book designer has attempted to make the contents page more than just a list of chapter headings and page references?

i)  __________________________________________________________________
 
ii) __________________________________________________________________

Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper.
 
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
Description of task: 
A contents page from a book on windsurfing is used by students to identify where to go to for specific information.
Curriculum Links: 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • identify purposes of structural features
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 within the Reading Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y8 (11/2002)

a)   3
4
easy
difficult
b)   1 easy
c)  

5
6
7

difficult

d)   8 easy
e)   2 moderate
f)   9 very easy
g)

i)

ii)

The chapter or section has a one-sentence
description.
The chapters (sections) have a small photo, and one has a drawing, to link to each chapter (section).

moderate
 
easy