:Santa Gets Ready
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Approach:  One to one Level: Year 4 and year 8 
Focus:  Ordering pictures to tell a story.
Resources: 8 picture cards.
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Questions/instructions:
Give student the set of pictures in order 1–8.
Look carefully at all 8 pictures. They tell a story about Father Christmas getting ready,
but they are not in the right order.

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2
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8

% responses
2002 '98
y4
y8
1. Put the pictures into the right order. Don’t take any notice of the numbers on the cards.
    
Allow time for the student to arrange pictures.
Record the card numbers before asking the next question.
Correct order: (4, 8, 2, 7, 1, 5, 3, 6)
51 (46)
65 (69)
2. How do you know these are now in the right order?    
    prompt: What are the clues?
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If you want to make any changes you can do that now.
Point to card numbered 3.
3. How do you know this one goes here?
If the student has made any changes, record the changes below the existing answers.
4 clues:
(all clothes on; bag strap visible;
still inside house; saying goodbye)
mentioned all 4 clues
2 (1)
1 (3)
mentioned 3 clues
8 (6)
12 (15)
mentioned 2 clues
29 (31)
35 (36)
mentioned 1 clue
49 (45)
44 (36)
any other response
12 (17)
8 (10)

Commentary:
While half or more of the students at both levels could place the 8 pictures into the correct order, only a small percentage could thoroughly justify the placement of the second to last picture in the sequence. Year 8 students performed only a little better than year 4 students in this regard.
 
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