:Lost Pet
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Approach:  Station
Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus:  Writing a descriptive advertisement.
Resources: Picture.
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Questions/instructions:
Imagine this is your pet and it is lost. You want to get it back.
You can advertise your lost pet in the lost and found column in the local newspaper.
Write your ad. in the box. You can write up to 24 words.
Give all the information that would be needed.

The Daily News
LOST and FOUND Advertisement
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% responses
y4
y8
How well has the dog been described visually?
very well
3
11
well
16
26
moderately well
33
36
poorly
48
27
the red ID tag or information on it was mentioned
16
46
workable contact details provided
34
46
no more than 24 words
66
61
Total score:
5–6
7
10

3–4
22
46
2
36
28
0–1
35
16
Commentary:
A significant minority of students ignored the picture and described their own pet. This might have been avoided if the first instruction had been “Find the picture of a dog”. Where students described their own pet, the marking scale was applied as fairly as possible to their description. Few students met all or most of the requirements, but about 25 percent more year 8 than year 4 students achieved a score of 3 or better.
 
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