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 * Back to: YEAR NINE ENGLISH 2009
 * ** All Terms ** || ** Focus ** || **Application and Assessment**
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||  **Book Reviews** + + + + + + + + + + +     ** Silent Reading ** + + + + + + + + + + + ** Spelling ** + + + + + + +
 * Unfamiliar Visual and Written Text Practise **
 * Common Test **

|| **This can either be done in a separate exercise book, with a contents record at the beginning of the book, // or //as a blog owned by the student and linked to your own.

This will be assessed at the end of each term by the teacher. Please create an assessment criteria after discussion with your class so that there can be "buy in". Make sure that presentation is one of the criteria! Have students record the criteria for their book reviews either at the beginning of their separate exercise book, or at the beginning of their blog.** + + + + This is to be done for up to 15 mins "regularly" throughout the English course week. Please try to work this into your daily or weekly planning. This is for reading mileage and all the goodies that come from reading mileage! Set aside one half hour a week to get to the library to change books, or send of two or three students with a note to change their books when it suits you/them.

Encourage students to get a Rodney District Library card and to bring it to school to show you.

Contact the Whangaparaoa Public Library to co-ordinate a class visit to the library that suits your timetable. + + + + **This is to support accuracy in writing and the rest of the work we do in punctuation with contracted word and ownership apostrophes and word choice/grammar. Please use the spelling lists supplied or create your own class or individual learner lists. Work spelling tests into your daily or weekly planning. Set up "spelling pairs" for peer teaching. ** **+** ** This is to ensure that learners develop knowledge and skills around understanding the purpose of the texts, as well as the techniques,devices, parts of speech and language features used by the artists and authors to create the texts. + + + +  A Common Test will be given at the end of each term on the following: Parts of Speech, Language Features, Word choice/grammar, Unfamiliar Text Visual/Written, and an essay on the aspect of English that has been studied that term. eg.The Term One Common Test will have essay questions about the Extended Written Text that learners have studied. This wont double up on the testing of their response to text essays, but give learners practise at writing essays under pressure of time. ** ** The grade that gets entered into Kamar will be the grade that comes from their crafted assessment work. **   ||