Golden Scarab
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Approach:  Station
ACCESS
Level: Year 8
Focus: Making connections  
Resources:
Work book
FRAME 224Kb
Questions/instructions:  


The Golden Scarab is an adventure story. It takes place in New Zealand but also tells about Ancient Egyptian times.

Read the comments that some children made about the story.

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% responses
y8
1. What did Matt and Dylan say that was the same?
hard to/couldn’t put the book down
77
extremely enjoyable/really enjoyed this book
15
2. What did Jake and Dylan disagree about?
how predictable the storyline/plot was/what will happen next
66
3. What did Matt and Jordyn both think was
a good feature of the book?
educational/interesting history about Eygptian culture
53
4. What did all the readers agree about?
they all enjoyed the book/a great book
87

Total score:
4–5
39
3
33
2
16
0–1
12
Subgroup Analysis [Click on charts to enlarge] :
Year 8
Commentary:
Year 8 students handled the task of making connections among the four passages moderately well. Girls scored higher than boys and there was a substantial proportion of Pasifika students who had little success.