Assessment for Learning Resource Bank Web-based Learning and Teaching Support
Learning and Teaching Activity – Detective Academy
Learning objectives:
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| Vocabulary |
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| Language Items and Communicative Functions |
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| Language Skills |
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| Generic Skills |
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Relevant Basic Competency Descriptors:
L5-R-3-S3BC Understanding the use of a range of language features and other techniques to present themes, characters, experiences and feelings in simple literary / imaginative texts (IS, KS, ES)
L6-R-1-S3BC Using an increasing range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity (IS, KS, ES)
L6-R-2-S3BC Extracting and organizing information and ideas from texts with some degree of complexity (KS)
L6-W-1-S3BC Writing a variety of texts of different purposes with relevant and generally adequate content (IS, KS, ES)
Level of Difficulty
2
Preliminary to S3BC (at S1 level)
To S3BC (at S1 to S2 level)
At S3BC (at S3 level)
| Activity | Description | Suggested duration (minutes) | Available for self - learning? |
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Part 1 |
Interactive Activity 1: Eye Spy Students are asked to identify the magnified objects by examining the photos as well as reading the clues provided. |
15 |  |
| Part 2 |
Interactive Activity 2: Secret Codes Students are asked to identify the hidden messages by investigating the secret codes and reading the clues provided. |
15 | |
| Part 3 |
Interactive Activity 3: The Final Challenge Students are asked to find the way out of a haunted house by using the clues provided (i.e. secret codes, news headlines, a map, a poem, etc.). |
20 | |
| Part 4 |
Writing Activity: A "Day-Trap" in the Haunted House Students are asked to write some field notes about how they escaped from the haunted house by revisiting Part 3 again. |
30 |  |
Key Stage 3 Targets:
To develop an ever-improving capability to use English:
| KSb- | To interpret and use more extensive information through processes and activities such as comparing, inferring and drawing conclusions |
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| KDd- | To identify and define problems from given information, consider related factors, solve the problems and explain the situation |