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Focusing Inquiry: Know your students

What literacy knowledge and skills do my students have in The Arts?

Use multiple sources of information to determine the focus of your inquiry – student voice, assessment information, diagnostic tasks.

  • Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning e-asTTle This is a norm-referenced online tool for assessing reading achievement relevant to levels 2–6 of the curriculum. It provides national norms of performance for students in years 4–12. You may wish to discuss the implications of asTTle results for your learning area with the Literacy Leader in your school.
  • Subject resources related to NCEA assessments are available - click on the relevant subject page.

What literacy knowledge and skills need to be developed?

  • The Literacy Learning Progressions describe the specific literacy knowledge, skills, and attitudes that students draw on in order to meet the reading and writing demands of the curriculum. Teachers need to ensure that their students develop the literacy expertise that will enable them to engage with the Arts curriculum at increasing levels of complexity.

Teaching and Learning

The Guidelines for Effective Adolescent Literacy Instruction outlines the principles of effective literacy instruction.

The arts curriculum guide is available online. These guides have been designed to help teachers create quality teaching and learning programmes. They support teachers in their planning for the alignment of standards to The New Zealand Curriculum.

Learning Inquiry

  • What happened as a result? Assessment is the process of gathering, analysing, interpreting and using information about students' progress and achievement to improve teaching and learning. Refer to Assessment Online
  • Classroom observations play a key role in supporting teachers' understanding of effective literacy instruction.. This presentation by Trish Holden looks at some ways of ensuring that these observations can be used to effect change that will impact on student learning. The teaching as inquiry template can be used effectively as the basis for classroom observations as it uses student and teacher learning needs as the basis for planning. 
  • What are the next steps?

Literacy in English

Teaching and Learning

The Guidelines for Effective Adolescent Literacy Instruction outlines the principles of effective literacy instruction.

The English curriculum guide is available online. These guides have been designed to help teachers create quality teaching and learning programmes. They support teachers in their planning for the alignment of standards to The New Zealand Curriculum.

The Great Marble Challenge

Literacy in Health and Physical Education

Teaching Inquiry: Planning to meet student needs

How can literacy learning needs be addressed in the teaching and learning programme?

How does research inform my inquiry?

  • Enhancing Content Literacy in Physical Education Cathy Buell & Andrea Whittaker. 2001.This article describes the role of literacy in Physical Education and outlines some instructional strategies that teachers can use to build, and then assess, literacy skills.

How will progress be monitored?

Your inquiry will determine the ways in which progress should be monitored. For example, you may decide to monitor progress through student writing, oral responses, research skills and/or presentations.

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Teaching and Learning

The Guidelines for Effective Adolescent Literacy Instruction outlines the principles of effective literacy instruction.

Level 6 and 7 learning programme design snapshots: These snapshots were designed by teachers to capture specific ideas or contexts to support the learning of diverse students. 

Learning Inquiry

  • What happened as a result? Assessment is the process of gathering, analysing, interpreting and using information about students' progress and achievement to improve teaching and learning. Refer to Assessment Online
  • Classroom observations play a key role in the Secondary Literacy. This presentation by Trish Holden looks at some ways of ensuring that these observations can be used to effect change that will impact on student learning. The teaching as inquiry template can be used effectively as the basis for classroom observations as it uses student and teacher learning needs as the basis for planning.

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