: Mice
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Approach: One to one
Level: Year 4
Focus: Recalling information presented orally
Resources: Audio recording on laptop computer
Questions/instructions:
This activity uses the computer.
  


You are going to listen to a poem called “Mice”. After that, I will ask you what you remember from listening to the poem, so listen very carefully.

Click the Mice button.

See if you can remember the words that come at the end of
the lines I will read from the poem.

Audio script:
I think mice are rather nice.
Their tails are long, their faces small,
They haven’t any chins at all.
Their ears are pink, their teeth are white.
They run about the house at night.
They nibble things they shouldn’t touch
And no-one seems to like them much.
But I think mice are rather nice.


% responses
y4

1. Their tails are …?
long
68
2. Their faces …?
small
50
3. They haven’t any …?
chins at all
15
chins
42
4. Their ears are …?
pink
68
5. Their teeth are …?
white
75
6. They run about the house at …?
night
97
7. They nibble things they shouldn’t …?
touch
54
8. And no one seems to like them …?
much
71
Total score:
8–9
17
6–7
37
4–5
32
2–3
13
0–1
1
Subgroup Analysis:
Year 4
Commentary:
Year 4 students showed quite good success in this task requiring the recall of the endings of lines in a poem. Girls performed slightly better than boys, and Pakeha students slightly better than Mäori and Pasifika students.
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