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Section One: What is this?
Section One: What is this?
In this standard you are asked to 'read' and respond to six texts. You will have to 'read':
x2 extended written texts (these are ones that are longer than 100 pages)
x2 short written texts (these could be poems, short stories, interesting news articles)
x2 more texts (that could be another extended written text, more short written texts or could be a visual, oral or mixed text)
For this you will get 4 credits (at Level Two, these count as 4 of your University Entrance Literacy credits). For the Level 2 standard, you need to read at Level 7 of the New Zealand Curriculum; this basically means that your target audience for texts needs to be adults (but also not R18!).
Section Two: Why do this?
Section Two: Why do this?
The best way to get better at reading is to read...lots. By reading, you expose yourself to a whole lot of new words that you potentially didn't know before meaning that you can express yourself better in your everyday life. It means that your writing will also get better as you will see how different people write. And, you will have the opportunity to broaden your experiences, think about how you would cope in a similar situation, and expand your general knowledge - all of these help you to be brainier!
Section Three: How are you going to do this?
Section Three: How are you going to do this?
For each of these texts, you need to either write or record yourself responding to the text. Here is the NCEA task and exemplars to that you can see what you need to do:
Use the subpages off this page to help you access quality extended texts, short texts, visual and oral texts.
Consider these questions as you read and write (or prepare for an oral response)
Consider these questions as you read and write (or prepare for an oral response)
What is the text briefly about?
What do you notice / remember about the text? Why does it stand out to you?
What details from the text lead you to this understanding / thinking?
Do you agree with what the author is trying to say? Why or why not?
How does this text change how you see the world that you're living in for you?
How does this text help you understand people differently / better?
Does this text remind you of other texts? Does it agree or disagree with them? How does it connect to those other texts?
What does this text leave you feeling or thinking?
What do you notice that somebody else probably doesn't notice?
The Excellence Question: did the author do a good job? Do you agree with how they wrote this book? (*remember that simply answering this question won't automatically guarantee excellence but it makes a good start)
Show that you're really thinking about the text by using words such as 'perhaps' and 'suggests' to offer up your own interpretations (e.g. Perhaps what Shakespeare is trying to tell his readers is that we shouldn't trust just anybody, maybe he's suggesting that we also need to trust ourselves before anyone else) . Make sure that you've always used the 'because' because that shows that you understand what you're saying and can link it to details from your texts (e.g. I think that Shakespeare is getting us to trust ourselves because if Othello had trusted himself more than Iago, he wouldn't have been eaten by the 'green eyed monster' and gone on to kill Desdemona and himself.)
Section Four: Texts to read
Section Four: Texts to read
Click on the buttons below to be taken to a selection of texts that work for this standard.
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