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Karen B

Hi Everyone,

My unit is here(below) for you to look at. I still have to work on some of the checklists mentioned in my unit and I'm still thinking of a simplified rubric to give students for each part of their task. Hopefully you get the general idea of what I am trying to do.

Any ideas and suggestions will be gratefully received.

The unit of work will be taught in conjunction with a HSIE/PD health integrated unit exploring how goods and services provide for needs and wants as well as the effects on our health of the choices we make in regards to food. All this seemed to lead to the following conceptual focus which will underpin the unit of work. Advertising influences consumers in the choice of products and services purchased. Grammatical features and text structure work to influence an audience. This unit is written for my Year 3 class which is a fairly average mixed ability class. There are a few very capable writers and a few who struggle with writing at length. Being Year 3 students, they still require quite a lot of modelling, scaffolding and explicit teaching to help build their skills but they enjoy working independently once they have the necessary skills and they really love working with technology to present their ideas. Do I need the second part of the assessment task where students make an ad/ poster after they have written the advertising article? I included it as another way for students to demonstrate their understanding of how vocabulary influences the choices we make and as an engaging task that would motivate even those more reluctant writers but is it too much?
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