Super stories: verbs and adverbs: assessment

• Students relate the nature and strength of evaluative stance in texts to language and multimodal choices.
• Students use grammatical forms such as verbs and adverbs to evoke an emotional response from readers of a horror story.
• Students analyse how particular language choices can give more or less emphasis, intensity, force or focus to evaluations.
• Students investigate how images influence the reader to adopt certain evaluative positions about a text.

• Illustrates how verbal choices and image choices impact on the construction of meaning in a narrative text.
• Assesses students' ability to read a narrative text, and then change verbs and illustrations and add adverbs to make the text more effective.
• Illustrates how the selection of images can increase the sense of horror in a narrative text.
• Includes an option to edit and improve the new story by adjusting the verbs, adverbs and images.
• Provides a mechanism for the student to reflect on how to develop their ability to use verbs and adverbs effectively.
• Includes an option to print the assessment report.

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• english

• English/Language

• English/Literacy