| Link Task 7 |
| Approach:
One to one
Level: Year 4 and Year 8
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| Resources:
A picture book without words.
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| Instructions:
After a quick look through a picture book without words, the student was instructed to follow
the book through to tell its story in an interesting and entertaining way.
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% responses
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| y4 |
y8 |
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Covered the main thread
of the story
strong
moderate
weak
|
48
48
4
|
65
34
1
|
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Embellishing the main thread of the story
strong
moderate
weak
|
21
44
35
|
27
50
23
|
|
Ideas expressed clearly
strong
moderate
weak
|
27
60
13
|
40
54
6
|
|
Interesting and entertaining presentation
strong
moderate
weak
|
18
46
36
|
24
53
23
|
|
Overall effectiveness in
communicating story
very high
quite high
moderate
low
|
3
30
53
14
|
11
38
45
6
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| Link Task 9 |
| Approach:
Team
Level: Year 8 |
| Resources:
Set of topic cards; eggtimer. |
|
Instructions:
Students selected topics to talk about and were instructed to make their talk really interesting
for others in the team.
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| |
% responses |
|
y8 |
|
Relevance to topic
strong
moderate
weak
|
46
42
12 |
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Coherence of presentation
strong
moderate
weak
|
21
59
20
|
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Degree of interest stimulated
strong
moderate
weak
|
11
56
33
|
|
Speech clarity
strong
moderate
weak
|
58
36
6
|
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Commentary:
The instructions and procedures for link tasks 8 & 9 were the same but different topics were used
for year 4 and year 8. |
Approach:
Team