expressive writing
 : Santa
Approach: Station
3.8Mb
Resources: None

Questions / instructions:
Santa is thinking something very funny. In the bubble, write what he could be thinking.

  % responses
y4
y8

Speach bubble
Santa

Relevance to pictures: (including buckets)

high
moderate
none

36
36
28
53
31
15

Humour:

very humorous
mildly humorous
not humorous

10
31
59
17
43
40

Follows conventions of personalised thought:

yes
partially
no

48
9

43
77
6
17

Overall score:

5–6
3–4
0–2

20
30
50
42
36
24

Commentary:
Only about half of the year 4 students succeeded in following the speech bubble format. Overall, 22 percent more year 8 than year 4 students produced a strong response to this task.



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