creative writing level 1 ncea

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Internal and external assessment resources for English

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AS 91924 - Demonstrate understanding of how context shapes verbal language use

AS 91925 - Demonstrate understanding of specific aspects of studied text

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Level 1 English exams and exemplars (external link)

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Level 1 English assessment reports and schedules (external link)

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Internal assessment exemplars.

AS 91101 - Produce a selection of crafted and controlled writing (2.4A)

AS 91101 - Produce a selection of crafted and controlled writing (2.B)

AS 91102 - Construct and deliver a crafted and controlled oral text (2.5)

AS 91103 - Create a crafted and controlled visual and verbal text (2.6)

AS 91104 - Analyse significant connections across texts, supported by evidence (2.7)

AS 91105 - Use information literacy skills to form developed conclusion(s) (2.8)

AS 91106 - Form developed personal responses to independently read texts supported by evidence (2.9)

AS 91107 - Analyse aspects of visual and/or oral text(s) through close viewing and/or listening, supported by evidence (2.10)

Level 2 English exams and exemplars (external link)

Level 2 English assessment reports and schedules (external link)

AS 91475 - Produce a selection of fluent and coherent writing which develops, sustains, and structures ideas (3.4A)

AS 91475 - Produce a selection of fluent and coherent writing which develops, sustains, and structures ideas (3.4B)

AS 91476 - Create and deliver a fluent and coherent oral text which develops, sustains, and structures ideas (3.5)

AS 91477 - Create and deliver a fluent and coherent visual text which develops, sustains, and structures ideas using verbal and visual language (3.6A)

AS 91477 - Create and deliver a fluent and coherent visual text which develops, sustains, and structures ideas using verbal and visual language (3.6B)

AS 91478 - Respond critically to significant connections across texts, supported by evidence (3.7)

AS 91479 - Develop an informed understanding of literature and/or language using critical texts (3.8)

AS 91480 - Respond critically to significant aspects of visual and/or oral text(s) through close reading, supported by evidence (3.9)

Level 3 English exams and exemplars (external link)

Level 3 English assessment reports and schedules (external link)

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• Aug 2, 2023

Everything you need to know about NCEA English assessments from an expert teacher (part 2)

Everything you need to know about NCEA English

So, you can now call yourself an NCEA student, yet do you need a bit of a head's up on your NCEA English assessments? – Well, you've come to the right person, because I'm an NCEA English expert!

Here are the ins and outs of NCEA English! Part two! Check out part one about NCEA English exams, if you haven't already.

This blog will cover the NCEA English assessments under: Creating Meaning: Writing, Speaking, and Presenting.

These are some of my favourite assessments because I am able, as a teacher, to see my students' personalities shine through in their NCEA assessments. Here they are creating poems and stories, writing blogs and articles, critically analyse themes in a formal way, analyse films - and what I would call "The Mothership" - speeches and/or presentations!

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Another brief introduction about myself. My name is Tovah and I have a tutoring company called 'Tovah's Tutoring Company Ltd'. We have been available to New Zealand high school learners since February 2022. My team and I are experienced teachers with a plethora of content knowledge between us. I have been a teacher for over 12+ years and have taught NCEA English, NCEA Drama and/or NCEA Dance in a variety of Waikato/Waipa/Auckland high schools. So, I can say with confidence that I am an expert in my qualified subjects and know the ins and outs of each NCEA assessment.

Here are the ones I will be covering in this blog:

#1: NCEA ENGLISH Creative writing

#2: NCEA ENGLISH Formal writing

#3: NCEA ENGLISH Oral presentation

#4: NCEA ENGLISH Visual text (film)

#1 : NCEA ENGLISH Creative Writing

To begin with, it is imperative to say that creation is one of the highest forms of skills you can learn. to be able to think of an idea, conceptualise it, plan its delivery, and then execute your creative idea(s), is an intelligent thing to master so, all of these ncea assessments may be challenging for ncea students, so they do need to be well practiced..

Creative writing is fantastic. There are many ways to deliver it such as through poetry, scripts, blogs, articles, journals, short stories, novels etc. All students will be given a brief such as a situation or theme to write about and they will need to demonstrate this by using a variety of language features.

NCEA English proofreading and editing

I think one of the main things, particularly within NCEA English Level 2 and 3 is that you need to have a strong understanding of how to edit your work. You need to be able to re-read over your work and carefully proofread it to make sense. This element is crucial and is often overlooked in NCEA English Level 1 for NCEA students. But this skill is imperative in NCEA English Level 2 and 3 so it must be practiced at the very least in NCEA Level 1 English.

Three aspects to learn in NCEA English:

knowing your audience that you are writer for

knowing the purpose of your writing and therefore the writing style for the written piece you are developing (whether you will be informing, entertaining, or persuading your audience)

knowing how to communicate language features in a variety of ways to deliberately facilitate the reader's thoughts and the images they develop when reading your work.

#2 : NCEA ENGLISH Formal Writing

Ncea english critical analysis.

Formal writing is all about structure. It is important to know that you will be critically writing in this NCEA English assessment(s) so you must know how to write with conviction (having sounds examples and evidence to back up your opinions), while also writing formally (without teenage colloquialisms/slang and venting/ranting/tangents).

NCEA English paragraph structure

Having a sound knowledge of paragraph structure and essay structure is paramount to submitting NCEA English assessments. The vast majority require you to develop your answers in paragraphs and/or essay formal. In other words, through formal writing.

A common format idea for paragraphs which is easy to follow is the acronym S.E.E.D

Statement, Example, Evidence, Discussion. When you follow this correctly, you will develop a critical analysis formal piece of writing.

NCEA English practice tip

On another note, comprehension tasks and 3 level reading guides will strengthen this skill (formal writing).

The formal writing assessment is only available in NCEA Level 1 English; however, components of formal writing can be used for the NCEA Level 2 and NCEA Level 3 'Produce a selection' crafted and controlled assessments (AS 2.4 and 3.4), which is commonly known by NCEA English teachers and NCEA students as 'writing portfolios'. These assessments require students to produce a variety of different written pieces to showcase the NCEA student's knowledge of writing types, audience, purpose/writing style, and language features.

#3 : NCEA ENGLISH Oral Presentation

The Oral presentation is a flash way of saying "speeches". Students will have a concept to talk about and they will be required to plan and structure the speech with language features suitable for expressing their point across. For NCEA English Level 2 and 3 they are allowed to include a PowerPoint presentation. The minimum time limit is 3 minutes for NCEA Level 1 and 4 minutes for NCEA level 2 and 3.

Appropriate NCEA English oral presentation language features could include:

Rhetorical question

Alliteration

Facts and statistics

Audience interaction

Appropriate NCEA English oral presentation delivery features could include:

eye contact

hand gestures

change of voice (tone, pace, pausing, emphasis, volume)

body posture and movement

controlling technology while speaking

#4 : NCEA ENGLISH Visual text (film)

This assessment moves in parallel with media and advertising. Students will convey a message through an image they create, normally on A3 paper, which can be made using a variety of mediums of their choice e.g. scrapbooking material, drawing, painting, graphic design. There should be a message to convey and layers of symbolism used to communicate the message. Things like knowing what colours, fonts, textures, images and impact what message conveys. It is common for teachers to use this assessment as the next stepping stone after analysing a written text, so that students can communicate a theme within the text.

NCEA English visual text colour influences can include:

Red symbolises love, lust, hate, danger, revenge

Orange symbolises harvest and autumn

Yellow symbolises happiness and joy, also great to demand attention (construction sites etc)

Green symbolises envy, wealth, money, growth, nature

Purple symbolises luxury, royalty

Pink symbolises playful, infancy

White symbolises purity, loyalty, perfection, cleanliness, hygiene

Black symbolises professionalism, mystery, darkness, evil, unknown.

If you'd like support with this, I can help through our NCEA group tutorials - I am a qualified NCEA English teacher with confidence teaching NCEA English and supporting students with NCEA English exams.

See you in one of my NCEA English group tutorials!

Tovah O'Neill

Tovah's Tutoring Company Ltd

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www.tovahstutoring.co.nz

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Creative writing

Section 1 - what is creative writing.

Creative writing is the creation of a fictional piece of writing designed to transport the reader into the writer's world.

Whilst it can be based on a true event, it is a made-up piece of writing.

It is a chance for the reader to walk a mile in the writer's shoes.

Section 2 - What does the task look like for NCEA Level 1?

On the left here is the task for NCEA Level 1 creative writing. It is worth 3 credits and is INTERNALLY assessed.

You need to read through this task and brainstorm some ideas that you could write about. It is based on an experience so it could be your own, someone you know, or a fictional character that you base it on.

You MUST complete all the practice exercises and make notes from the videos provided to ensure that you have a good understanding of how you can construct your writing.

You MUST have contacted your teacher and discussed your writing plan before you start drafting.

It must be a minimum of 350 words long (about 2/3 of a page).

Always remember to SHOW and not tell :-)

On the right here are the exemplars for this task that past students have written.

They are NOT based on the same task that you will be doing but they do show how vital it is to SHOW and not tell.

You need to make a bullet point list of what you need to do to get an Achieved, Merit and then Excellence.

This will be something you can keep looking back at during the writing process to make sure you are on track for the grade that you want.

Section 3 - Ok, so how do I get started on my creative writing piece?

Step 1 - Understand how creative writing is made and why:

Watch this first video and answer the following questions:

What is the point of creative writing?

What kinds of things can you use when you write descriptively?

What happens for the reader when you write descriptively?

Watch this second video and answer the following questions:

What are the eight points of the eight-point story arc? What does each of them do?

Why would using a structure like this make your creative writing more interesting for the reader?

Step 2 - Build up your toolbox

In this section, there are a bunch of practice activities to really get you into the swing of things for creative writing.

Please remember to make a copy first if you're going to edit a Google doc.

Your first mission in this toolbox building, is to read through the slides presentation on the left here and complete the activities that are in it.

The next stage of your toolbox should be around just giving creative writing a go.

Fortunately for us, there is no particularly wrong way you can go about creative writing, as long as you are willing to keep editing and developing your work.

Give two of the exercises from the link to the right a go, send you efforts to your teacher for feedback :-)

After you have received feedback from your teacher on your practice pieces, it is time for you to have a go at the real deal.

Settle on an idea and plan with your teacher and get writing :-).

If you're still super stuck on how to get started, have a look and see if one of the prompts on the left can help get you thinking.

REMEMBER you creative piece must include an EXPERIENCE which leaves it very broad so you can most likely use your amazing idea :-)

FURTHER TIPS:

Don't worry about the word count, you will get there.

Don't worry about getting the perfect words etc. first time, that's what editing is for.

Make sure your ideas are developing and things are progressing in your creative writing piece.

Section 4 - What do I do after I have finished my draft?

After you have completed your draft, you edit your work. You read and reread it to improve and develop it further.

The videos on the left are designed as a starting point to help you edit, find out more about how to edit both creative and formal writing here .

It is a good idea to be looking for a different thing each time you read it over, for example:

Punctuation

Sentence structure

Descriptive wording

Development of ideas

Paragraphing

Deleting uneccessary words or sentences

The above list is not definitive. It is a prompt to get you thinking about how to edit.

English Workbook NCEA Level 1: As 1.4 Creative Writing

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Write-on student workbook covering the English skills needed to gain Achieved, Merit, or Excellence in this NCEA Level 1 Achievement Standard. Covers Achievement Standard 1.4 (AS 90052). Contains a large number of write-on student tasks designed to enable students to practise the necessary skills which will bring a deeper understanding to this area of the New Zealand English curriculum. Students will also find a large number detailed instruction boxes, glossaries and English resources that will help them develop the ideas, vocabulary and processes needed to gain a high level pass in the internal assessment for this Standard. At the end of the workbook there is a valuable Model Exam Essay. A full set of task answers is included, which act as a guide to structuring quality essays. An abbreviated version of Achievement Standard 1.4 is included in the resource.

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Level 1 creative writing 1.4 learning workbook.

Mary Cleland and Angela Fitchett

ISBN: 978-0-908315-73-4

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Based on our well-known Level 1 English Learning Workbook and Level 1 English Internals Learning Workbook, this book covers the internally assessed  Level 1 English Achievement Standard 1.4 (90052) .

It features brief notes, clear explanations, numerous worked examples and relevant exercises with answers. Use to support classroom work, to help with internal assessments and to revise for end-of-year exams. 

Published: 05/2016

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Appendix 1: Example of a Level 1 achievement standard

Achievement Standard

© New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2012

This achievement standard involves drafting, reworking and presenting at least one piece of creative writing.

Achievement Criteria

Explanatory Notes

• This achievement standard is derived from the Level 6 Creating Meaning strand [writing] and related achievement objectives in the English learning area of The New Zealand Curriculum , Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2007, and is related to the material in the Teaching and Learning Guide for English , Ministry of Education, 2011.
• Creative writing text types at this level may include descriptions, narratives, poems, personal accounts, scripts, or other appropriate creative writing text types. Students are required to draft, rework and present at least one piece of creative writing that expresses imaginative and creative ideas.
• Ideas may include thoughts, feelings, experiences or sensory qualities.
• Develop and structure ideas means to build on a single idea by adding details or examples, linking that idea to other ideas and details appropriate to the selected text type.
• Develop and structure ideas convincingly means that the development of the ideas and structure is generally credible and connected.
• Develop and structure ideas effectively means that the development of the ideas and structure is compelling and well-organised.
• vocabulary selection, syntax, stylistic features and written text conventions (including spelling, punctuation, grammar) are appropriate to audience and purpose for a selected text type
• written text conventions are used without intrusive error patterns, such as a pattern of errors in syntax (eg sentence fragments, where structures are not used intentionally; and ‘run on' syntax); or a pattern of other significant errors (eg mixed tense sequences, miscapitalisation, spelling errors).
• language features are selected and linked to the intended purpose and audience for the selected text type
• text conventions are used accurately so that the writing contains only minor errors.
• the original and sustained use of language features, distinctive personal voice, and dimensions or viewpoints linked to the intended purpose and audience for the selected text type
• Conditions of Assessment related to this achievement standard can be found at www.tki.org.nz/e/community/ncea/conditions-assessment.php .

Quality Assurance

• Providers and Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against achievement standards.
• Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against achievement standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those achievement standards.

Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference 0233

ASSESSMENT MATERIALS AND RESOURCES

Purpose Statement

Learners credited with this Unit Standard are able to write texts for different purposes and audiences, and use language conventions appropriately to support communication.

Classification

Core Generic > Work and Study Skills

Available Grade

Guidance information.

https://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/assessment/view-detailed.do?standardNumber=32405