Making an advertisement

Making an advertisement

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
 
super-bike.jpg
You are going to live in the United States for two years. You want to sell your bike.

Design an advertisement that could go on the school noticeboard. Put your advertisement in the box below. Your advertisement should:

  • be eye-catching
  • give some information about the bike
  • persuade the reader to buy your bike
Design your advertisement in this box.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 

 
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper.
Copyright: 
Photo: Author - patrick31200 (pixabay.com)
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
English, Creating meaning, Writing
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
advertisement, layout, structure and language
Description of task: 
Students design an advertisement to sell a bike.
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
  • using a text structure that is appropriate to their purpose

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
Creating texts to influence others, 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 (06/1998)
Headline: larger than rest of text/stands out. easy
At least two points about the bike. very easy
Two or more adjectives. moderate
Contact details. difficult
Incorporates an example of the language of advertising, e.g., "only for a limited time", "not $150, not $100, only $50!", "call now". difficult
Clear overall message, i.e., can be read and understood without having to re-read. very easy