Using an Index

Using an Index

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This task is about knowing how to use an index.

Shown below is part of an index from a book about New Zealand. Use it to answer questions a) to f).

INDEX
Page numbers for maps, illustrations, and captions are shown in bold,
e.g., 127-129
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Hobson, Captain William, 45, 46, 47-48
Hospitals, see Health
Hotels, 76-77, 93, 141-142
Houses and Home Life
      before Europeans, 9, 14
      to 1882, 31, 40, 44, 55, 56, 92-93
      after 1882, 205, 222
     See also Clothes, Food, Water Supply
House of Representatives, 243, 244-245, 262
Hydro-electric Schemes, see Building: Dams, Government: Public Works
Imports, see Trade
Indonesia, 26
Industry
     Fishing (excluding whaling), 10, 13
     Flax, 16-17, 34, 37-38
     Sealing, 30-31, 34
     Whaling, deep sea, 31-32
     Whaling, shore, 32-33, 34, 35
International Relations, 33, 134-135, 157
     See also British Empire, Trade, United Nations.
Kooti, Te, 85, 104-105
Kororāreka, 43-44
Land
     Clearing, 15-16, 60-61, 76
     Seizure of, 84-85
     Disputes over, 83-84, 86-88, 94-95, 96
     Sales, 41, 91-92
     Speculation, 4l, 49, 51, 61
     Subdivision, 112, 123-124
     Survey, 54, 74, 86-88
     See also Farming

 

 
 
a) What two pages would tell you about Māori villages before the arrival of Europeans? 
  (A)   9 and 14
(B)   43 and 44
(C)   104 and 105
(D)   134 and 135
 
b)
Why are there are no page numbers shown for "Imports"?
 
 
 
 
 
 
c) Most information on the buying and selling of land would probably be found on pages
  (A)   41 and 49.
(B)   74 and 75.
(C)   86, 87, and 88.
(D)   91 and 92.
(E)   123 and 124.
 
d)
On what page would you most likely find a map, showing the location of early industries in New Zealand, such as sealing bases, flax trading posts, and whaling stations?
 
 
 
e) If you wanted to find out the areas in which Māori land had been taken after the New Zealand wars of the 1860's, you would read page(s)
  (A)   41.
(B)   83 and 84.
(C)   84 and 85.
(D)   86, 87 and 88.
(E)   123 and 124.
 
f) If you wanted additional information about houses and home life, where else in the index would you look?
  (A)   Under Hotels
(B)   Under House of Representatives
(C)   Land, subdivision
(D)   Under Building: Dams
(E)   Under Clothes, Food, Water Supply
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper.
Copyright: 
Source: PAT, Study skills: Knowledge and use of Reference materials, NZCER, 1978.
(Text abridged).
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Reading
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
index, information skills
Description of task: 
Students use an index page from a book on New Zealand to answer six questions.
Curriculum Links: 
 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • recognise 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
Making sense of text: text structure, set 5
within the Reading Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
  

Y10 (05/2003)

a)

A

very easy

b)

Readers are referred to the "Trade" section where page numbers are given.

moderate

c)

D

moderate

d)

34

difficult

e)

C

moderate

f)

E

difficult
Diagnostic and formative information: 
  

Common error

Likely reason

c)

A

31% of students interpreted buying and selling land as speculation rather than sales.

e)

B
D

40% of students interpreted land taken as disputes (B – 22% and D – 18%) rather than seizure.