: Dear Diary
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Approach: Station Level: Year 4 and year 8 
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Focus: Personal diary writing
Resources:3 diary entry cards

Questions/instructions:
People sometimes write about events, things, thoughts or feelings in a diary. A diary helps them to remember these things or share them with others.
1. Read the diary entry cards. [2 cards only for year 4. Click to enlarge.].

Diary

2. Write your own diary entry. Write about something special that has happened to you recently.

% responses
y4
y8

Vividness and/or descriptiveness of diary account:



very good/excellent
6
25
good
24
35
moderately good
40
32
poor
30
8
Number of lines of text:
(ignore day/dateline)


more than 10
18
39
6 to 10
43
45
up to 5
39
16

Entry included day and/or date:
21
36
Total score:
5–6
7
27
4
13
22
3
18
21
2
24
17
0–1
38
13
Subgroup Analysis:
Year 4
Year 8
Commentary:
In general, girls performed substantially better than boys on this task but there were only minor differences in performance between Mäori, Pakeha and Pasifika students.
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