Two short poems
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Further Resources
This task is about writing poems using alliteration (words that start with the same letter).
Task administration:
This task can be completed by pen and paper or online.
Level:
3
Curriculum info:
Key Competencies:
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Description of task:
This task assesses students' ability to provide examples of different parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) in the context of writing two four-word alliteration poems.
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:
- create content that conveys ideas relating to the topic
- use vocabulary that clearly conveys ideas
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 within the Writing Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.Answers/responses:
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Y7 (02/2002) |
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a) |
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very easy |
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b) |
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very easy |
Diagnostic and formative information:
| Common error | |
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Instead of writing an adverb as the last word in this poem 13% of students wrote an adjective, 7% of students wrote a noun, and 6% of students wrote a verb. |
| b) |
Instead of writing an adverb as the last word in this poem 22% of students wrote an adjective, 19% of students wrote a noun, and 13% of students wrote a verb. |