Level 1 Literacy

What will I learn and how will I learn?
This course focuses on building upon the skills students have learned in Junior English and further develops their language and literacy skills to prepare them for NCEA assessment. It is for students who struggle with literacy. They can work at their own pace and gain their Literacy requirements for NCEA. The credits offered are internally assessed. However, there is the opportunity for students, depending on their ability, to do an external achievement standard and have an opportunity at other achievement standards. They will learn:

• how to write confidently in a range of styles to express their ideas
• how to explore and articulate their ideas verbally through discussions
• develop their love of reading for pleasure and further develop their reading comprehension skills
• how to analyse visual texts and create a visual text
• how to use processes and structures to understand and respond to surface level and deeper ideas within texts
• why and how to use accurate and appropriate language in a range of situations and for different audiences.

NOTE: The course is only endorsable for students who complete achievement standards. Student courses are individualised. Standards to be attempted will be determined in consultation with the teacher.

Conditions of Assessment
NCEA internal assessments allow a flexible approach to the collection of achievement evidence. Therefore, assessment conditions will vary from in class tasks, supervised by the teacher, to ongoing assessment work completed at home. All assessments will be monitored by the subject teacher to ensure authenticity of student work. Specific assessment conditions will be provided for individual achievement standards.

Submitting Internal Assessment
All internal assessments are to be submitted by specified due dates. These will be available in 2020.

Resubmission and Further Assessment Opportunities
Resubmissions can only be offered once and only when small errors or omissions need to be corrected in student work in a short period of time. There is no further teaching available. Further assessment opportunities are not available in every standard.