Multi Lingual Literacy Support

My Year 11 class is a mixed lot. 4 of them are in Mrs Latu's ESOL class. The 4 girl's drawing is great and they work really hard. The problem was coming up where they had to make sure their written work was up to date and also write analysis of their own design ideas.
Their teacher, Mrs Latu, was very keen to help them complete work in their different classes so they can start clocking the credits in. She has been gong to their Art class and has been coming to DVC to help the girls understand what they have to do. She has also been having them in her own classroom during DVC time for intensives.

A big part of what we have been working on is multi lingual support for the girls. I have been to ask Mrs Moore, our NZQA person, if the notes the girls write have to be in English. In light of this conversation, we decided to make multilingual support for writing available and the girls can write their analysis in their native languages. This can happen as long as Mrs Latu and Ms Fepuleai read the notes and sign off on the external posting envelope.

So, thanks to the efforts of Mrs Latu and Ms Fepuleai, I have my first set of multilingual writing supports for the girls.

Here is the original, based on SOLO taxonomy.

Chair Concepts - Architect Notes

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	Describe The shapes and forms you have used in your designs. The shapes and forms used in the buildings your architect designed. (tip - shape is 2D and form is 3D)
	Explain How you have used the shapes, forms, texture and patterns from your architect have been used in your chair designs. Why you chose the shapes for the design and the effect that has been achieved by using these shapes. Analyse How you have reflected the style of your architect in how you have designed your seating.
	Reflect On which parts of your designs show the style of your architect the best and why.

Examples

I have used ………….. shape / form in this design.

The shapes / forms in my architect’s work are………………..

The ………….. Shape / form is seen on …………….. building

I used ………………………… from the ………………...building as the main inspiration for this design. I chose this shape because it shows ………………………. about my architect’s work.

The style of my architect is ……………………… and I have reflected this in my design by ………………………………….

Here is the Tongan translation version
Here is the Samoan translation version


I have printed out all of these, given them out to who needs what and they are currently using these templates to help them with the notes on their design concepts.

My examples are here. They had to go from looking at the forms used in their chosen architects work to using this information to design seating and chairs.

This is for AS91067 leading into AS91068
Link to class site