School Journal Level 2 June 2023
PDFs of all the texts in this issue of the School Journal are available online as well as teacher support materials (TSM) and audio for the following:
| Audio | TSM | ||
| Articles | Fact or Opinion? | ✔ | ✔ |
| Cycleways | |||
| My Tūrangawaewae | |||
| Stories | The Big Rescue | ✔ | |
| Holiday Mahi | |||
| Poem | Today’s News | ||
| Student writing | My Dog | ||
| Play | Mixed Messages |
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Fact or Opinion?
by Sarah Johnson
This article explores the difference between fact and opinion. It includes a simple report that uses facts, data, and sources. It discusses the grey areas between fact and opinion and that people’s opinions can be based on bias.
Cycleways
by Sarah Connor
This article presents different points of view about cycleways, including those of a student, a pedestrian, a paracyclist, a driver, and a business owner. The reader is invited to evaluate the information and consider their own point of view.
My Tūrangawaewae
by Georgina Barnes
Students at Sylvia Park School created My Tūrangawaewae, a large contemporary version of a tapa. They designed individual squares that represent their identity and culture. The artwork celebrates them individually, as a class, and as a community.
The Big Rescue
by Steph Matuku; illustrations by Carol Herring
In this humorous story, the narrator prompts her aunt and uncle to retell the story of the big rescue. She has heard this “exciting” story many times, but each time the story changes. Her uncle begins telling the story with Mum and Aunty chipping in with their version of events.
Holiday Mahi
by André Ngāpō; illustrations by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White
When Api goes and stays with his whānau on their farm, his holiday doesn’t turn out quite how he’d imagined.
Today’s News
by Tim Upperton; illustrations by Gavin Mouldey
A humorous poem of headlines that use word play to convey how information can be taken out of context.
My Dog
by Alisa Mikuta; illustrations by Pippilotta Campbell
A student writes about why she loves her dog.
Mixed Messages
by Victor Rodger; illustrations by Darcy Solia
In this play, the wearing of masks results in confusion when a class are making leis.
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