:Kaiwakamoana
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Approach: Independent Level: Year 4 and year 8   
Focus: Understanding place names
Resources: Answer book

Questions/instructions:
Many place names have an interesting story behind them.
Here is the story about a place called Onetangi (One – Tangi).
Onetangi
One = sand
Tangi = weeping
Once there was a place where the winds blew along the seashore. As the sand was lifted up by the wind, it sounded like someone crying. So the beach came to be known as One-tangi, the place of the crying sands.
Here is another name:
Kaiwakamoana
Kai = food
Waka = canoe
Moana = sea
Write a short story that tells how Kaiwakamoana might have got this name.
   
% responses
2005 (01)
y4
y8
Clearly includes:
all three elements
51 (60)
72 (80)
 
two of three elements
8 (5)
13 (11)
 
one of three elements
7 (9)
2 (1)
 
none of three elements
34 (26)
13 (8)
Interest level (richness, creativity):
high/quite high
11 (21)
28 (32)
 
moderate
27 (34)
37 (38)
 
low/absent
62 (45)
35 (30)
Coherence of story: (ideas linked, flows clearly)
high/quite high
13 (29)
38 (44)
 
moderate
26 (30)
31 (33)
 
low/absent
61 (41)
31 (23)
Total score:
7
7 (19)
21 (22)
 
5–6
21 (23)
37 (47)
3–4
29 (27)
26 (17)
1–2
13 (10)
4 (7)
0
30 (21)
12 (7)
Commentary:
Just over half of the year 4 students and 72 percent of the year 8 students met the core requirement of including the three elements of the name in their story. Thirty percent more year 8 than year 4 students obtained a total score of five of higher. There was a small decline in performance, at both year levels, between 2001 and 2005.
  
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