ELLP Years1-4 - ESOL - Literacy Online - Te Kete Ipurangi

Stage 1D/2A
The following sample text is at Stage 1D/2A because the ideas are presented in clear stages and it
contains expanded sentences.
Texts at Stage 1D/2A tend to have the following characteristics:
– around three or more sentences per page;
– little repetition;
– support from illustrations;
– use of high-frequency words and some lower-frequency, technical, or topic words;
– use of simple, compound, and some complex sentences;
– sentences that are expanded with prepositional phrases or other structures.
Other examples of texts at Stage 1D/2A include those found at the fluency levels of the colour wheel
in the Ready to Read series books and their commercially published equivalents.
Sample text
Extract: Aiono-Iosefa, Sarona (2003). White Sunday in Sāmoa. Ready to Read
series. Wellington: Learning Media, pages 4–5.
Topic: A religious celebration important in Sāmoan culture
Text type: Explanation and recount
Audience: Younger readers – the text is simply written, from a child’s
perspective
Topic development
The topic develops through preparation
for the event. The present preparation
and the future event (White Sunday) are
interwoven.
Language structures
The sentences are mostly simple clauses
(subject–verb[–object]) or compound
sentences (two simple clauses joined
with a conjunction). There is a variety
of sentence beginnings and there is no
repetition of whole or part sentences.
White Sunday in Samoa -
White Sunday will be a very special day.
The children all have a Bible verse to say,
and they will sing hymns together.
They must practise hard.
Tafu practises his Bible verse.
It takes ages for everyone
to have their turn.
Tafu falls asleep!
So does his best friend.
Many of the verb phrases are in the simple
present – practises, falls asleep. Some are
in the future – will be, will sing. There is
also use of modal verbs that imply obligation – must practise.
The noun phrases are mainly simple, consisting of a single noun or a determiner and a noun – Tafu,
The children. Some are more complex, consisting of a determiner, an intensifier, an adjective, and
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