KLA: English
Other KLAs: Art
Concept: Short Stories/ Folk Tales
Theme: Fijian folk tales
Year Level: Year 8
Assessment task:
Create a short story (250 words) using PowerPoint inspired by Fijian myth. Stories will be presented in an audio-digital illustrated book. Books will be shared with the year 3 class. Stories must include:
- 250 written words
- Illustrations
- Audio of the story
- a moral
Features:
- originate from oral form
- brief tales created to convey a message or to teach a lesson (didactic)
- plot is simple and based on one event
- animals or elements usually represent aspects of human nature
- animals or elements can have human characteristics
Curriculum links:
Unit 2: Reading and comprehension:
Outcomes:
- understand different structures of books and stories
- interpret illustrations used in the story
- respond to stories
- use language in books in appropriate situations
- show understanding of background knowledge
- make predictions from stories read
- understand conventions of print
- read with understanding
Benchmark statement:
At the benchmark standard student should be able to:
- identify main ideas, characters, events and activities
- identify appropriate vocabulary, compound and complex sentences using appropriate reading strategies
- compare and contrast issues e.g. moral values, traditional values and beliefs, universal values and attitudes
Unit 3: Writing
Outcomes:
- construct a variety of written communication
- generate ideas from listening and reading stories
- apply knowledge of structure to create a story or a composition
- create stories collectively and individually
- use appropriate terms and expressions in writing
- utilise writing process
Benchmark statement:
At the benchmark standard students should be able to:
- construct texts in legible writing and correct punctuations
- construct texts suitable to one’s socio cultural and situational context
- use appropriate presentation styles, compound, complex sentences and original ideas
Unit 4: Grammar and Usage
Outcomes:
- identify the modes of communication
- interpret meaning from context
- apply knowledge of word order to construct sentences
Benchmark statement:
At the benchmark standard students should be able to:
- identify linking words in reading and use them in writing and speaking
- construct phrases, sentences and paragraphs
- use compound words, adverbs and adjectives when writing and in oral work
Art and craft
Benchmark Statement:
At the benchmark standard student should be able to:
- use contour lines to create drawings
- create a montage
- appreciate the proper care of art tools and materials used
- value and critique own artworks and their meaning
- be aware of how the arts shape tradition
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