Analysing and Using Information

	:Place Names	Trend Task

Approach: Station

Level: Year 4 and year 8

Focus: Using a dictionary

Resources: Year 4 only: Word list; Year 8 only: Dictionary: He Pa Auroa

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Questions / instructions:

YEAR 4 ONLY:
Use the word list to help you decide the
best place name for each picture.

YEAR 8 ONLY:
Use the dictionary to help you decide
the best place name for each picture.

Word List – Kupu Taka
	a			k
äe		yes	kaha		strong
ako		learn	kai		food
ao		world	kino		bad
äporo		apple		m
aroha		love	mä		white
	e		mahi		work
eke		climb up	maunga		mountain
engari		but	moenga		bed
	h			p
haere		go	pai		good
haere mai		welcome	pöuri		sad
hari		joy, happy		r
hari		carry	rä		day
höiho		horse	räkau		tree
hua		fruit	raro		under
	i		roto		in, inside
inapö		last night	roto		lake
ia		he, she	rua		two
ihu		nose		w
ika		fish	wä		time
inu		drink	wai		water
iti		little	wera		hot
iwi		tribe

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% responses
2005 ('01)

YEAR 4 & YEAR 8:
Match the names of the places with the pictures. The first one has been done for you.

Chose correct picture:

Rotoiti

58 (62)

77 (81)

Rotoika

56 (62)

71 (77)

Rotorua

58 (65)

75 (82)

Pukeräkau

62 (65)

84 (86)

Total score:

41 (48)

66 (72)

1 (2)

1 (1)

24 (20)

16 (14)

19 (16)

8 (6)

15 (14)

9 (7)

Commentary:
Sixty-six percent of year 8 students, compared to 41 percent of year 4 students, matched all the words with pictures correctly. Year 4 students had a simplified dictionary, so the results are not strictly comparable. At both year levels, there was a small decline in performance between 2001 and 2005.



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