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Write an article: responsible fishing: assessment

Write an article: responsible fishing: assessment

TLF ID L9769

Assess your ability to write an article. Research fishing in Western Australia. Look at how and why laws restrict people from taking certain fish. Identify cases where laws apply: size limits, bag limits and closed seasons. Build a magazine article explaining the fishing laws. Use a model structure and persuasive text to support a responsible position. For example, choose words such as 'precious' and 'vitally important' to make strong statements. View and print a report of your results. This assessment object is one in a series of two objects.

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Educational details

Key learning objectives

Students complete a factual exposition to suit the social context, audience and purpose.
Students revise a factual exposition to improve language choice and usage.
Students choose opinion adjectives and adverbs to support an evaluative stance.
Students interpret technical language.

Educational value

Models text structure, features and language of an exposition (including use of opinion adjectives and adverbs).
Challenges students to interpret technical language.
Highlights importance of audience and purpose when making language choices.
Provides an option to print an exposition compiled by the student.
Defines difficult words.
Includes a printable report of the student's performance.

Year level

5; 6

Learning area

english

Strand

English/Language

English/Literacy

Student activity

Interactives;
Analysis;
Modelling;
Comprehension activity

Other details

Contributors

Script writer

Name: Marcelle Holliday
Address: Little Hartley NSW 2790 Australia

Subject matter expert

Name: Marcelle Holliday
Address: Little Hartley NSW 2790 Australia

Technical implementer

Organisation: Fraynework Multimedia
Address: Carlton VIC 3053 Australia
URL: http://www.fraynework.com.au/

Technical implementer

Organisation: Millipede Creative Development Pty Ltd
Address: Cremorne VIC 3121 Australia
URL: http://www.millipede.com.au/

Publisher

Date of contribution: 20 Sep 2013
Organisation: Education Services Australia
Address: Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia
URL: http://www.esa.edu.au

Subject matter expert

Name: Trevor Poultney
Address: Fitzroy North VIC 3068 Australia

Educational validator

Name: Dr Joanne O'Mara
Organisation: Deakin University, Faculty of Education
Address: Burwood VIC 3125 Australia
URL: http://www.deakin.edu.au

Technical implementer

Organisation: Liquid Interactive
Address: Fortitude Valley QLD 4006 Australia
URL: http://www.liquid.com.au

Access profile

Colour independence
Device independence
Hearing independence
Generic

Learning resource type

Assessment resource

Browsers

Microsoft Internet Explorer - minimum version: 8.0 (MS-Windows) - maximum version: 9.0 (MS-Windows)
Firefox - minimum version: (MS-Windows)
Safari - minimum version: 5.1 (MacOS)

Operating systems

MacOS - minimum version: 10.6
MS-Windows - minimum version: XP - maximum version: 7

Platform requirements

This object may not display correctly on the Mac OS X platform in Safari unless viewed with Flash 9 Player 9, 0, 24 (for Safari). Use of earlier increments of the Flash 9 Player may result in playback issues on both PowerPC and Intel based hardware. Indications of an incompatible player are looping and/or flashing animations which are likely to relate to flawed interaction with the API or rendering engine.

Rights

© Education Services Australia Ltd, 2013, except where indicated under Acknowledgements.