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| Focus: Retelling a story from a picture book without words. | ||||||
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Questions
/ instructions: This book called The Sandwich tells a story in pictures but it doesn't have any words. I want you to make up your own story by looking at the pictures. Pretend that you are going to tell the story to a young child. You need to make it as interesting as possible. Here is the book. Have a quick look through it first, then you can start to tell me the story in a way that makes it fun to listen to. |
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%
responses
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y4
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y8
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Covering the main thread of the story |
strong
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60
(62)
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73
(80)
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moderate
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34
(36)
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24
(19)
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weak
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6
(2)
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3
(1)
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| Embellishing
the story detailed description |
strong
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27
(29)
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39
(41)
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moderate
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53
(45)
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50
(53)
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weak
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20
(26)
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11
(6)
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| Clear oral expression of ideas |
strong
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54
(52)
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65
(69)
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moderate
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34
(40)
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30
(28)
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weak
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8
(8)
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5
(3)
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| Making presentation interesting |
strong
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26
(23)
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35
(39)
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moderate
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54
(46)
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52
(49)
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weak
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20
(31)
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13
(12)
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very
high
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8
(2)
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15
(19)
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| Overall effectiveness in presenting story |
quite
high
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33
(37)
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39
(37)
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moderate
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47
(48)
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40
(36)
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low
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12
(13)
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6
(8)
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Total
score:
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10–11
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18
(17)
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29
(32)
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8–9
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22
(20)
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22
(23)
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6–7
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25
(25)
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27
(28)
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4–5
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18
(18)
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13
(11)
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2–3
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10
(17)
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5
(4)
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0–1
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7
(3)
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4
(2)
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| Commentary:
More than half of the students at both levels covered the main thread of the story well, with clear oral expression. Considerably fewer made the story detailed and interesting. On each attribute and overall, about 10 percent more year 8 than year 4 students scored highly. Differences between 1996 and 2000 performances were quite small. |
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