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Start: Trans-Tasman challenge: level 3
 
Title: Trans-Tasman challenge: level 3 
Description: Travel to seven places in Australia and New Zealand. Identify each location to win a souvenir. Scan texts and images to get clues. Find all seven locations to win a holiday to your favourite place. This learning object is the last in a series of three objects that progressively increases in difficulty. 
Topics: Informative texts; Predictions (Stories); Reading comprehension; Text purpose; Vocabularies 
Keywords: Informative texts, Predictions (Stories), Reading comprehension, Text purpose, Vocabularies 
Learning area: English 
Strand: Language; Literacy 
Concept: Comprehension; Critical literacy; Searching 
Audience user level: 5; 6; 7; 8  Audience type: Student 
Age range: 9-14  Audience sector: School 
Key learning objectives:
  • Students use scanning strategies to decode written and visual texts.
  • Students construct literal and inferential meaning from written and visual texts.
  • Students identify and distinguish between proper nouns within written and visual texts.
Educational value:
  • Introduces scanning strategies to identify proper nouns.
  • Highlights capitalised words to visually reinforce scanning strategies.
  • Features a range of authentic texts and images depicting or referring to places in Australia and New Zealand.
  • Tests identification of place names via simplified maps.
  • Rewards task progress with souvenirs.
Skill: Application; Comprehension; Knowledge 
Student activity: Analysis; Comprehension Activity; Interactives; Modelling; Multiple Choice Questions 
Learning design: Experiential learning; Independent learning; Problem solving; Visual learning 
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