This slide share supports the NZTA Education Competition (2012) for years 1-8 ( Primary) check www.education.nzta.govt.nz for more information and www.twitter.com/nztaeducation for updates

1. Safer Journeys for Children
Pick-a-Path 2012
Every day children travelling to
school make a number of
decisions about road safety.
In the Pick-a-Path competition
students discuss and describe
the impact of decisions as they
think/walk/plan their way to
school. (This can also be fiction)
Highlight the good decisions

2. Pick-a-Path process
The NZTA has a range of support
materials on its website
http://education.nzta.govt.nz
and these may form a basis for
the development of the Safer
Journeys Pick-a-Path story.

3. Pick-a-Path in your school
The Pick-a-Path planning and
writing process is a way to
involve all children in a group/
class/school.
The development of the plot/s
and the characters can be a
cooperative exercise
incorporating many suggestions.
Because it feeds in to one final
product the writing can be shared
and collaborative.
Make writing in your class a team sport

4. What is a Pick-a-Path?
An interactive story where the reader has a
range of choices as they progress. The
choices made may lead to new options, or
turn back on themselves.
The key is to develop interest at each
stage of the story.
See what happens to the characters as
they make their choices. The challenge is
to maintain a story as the choices unfold.
Children can use their imaginations to
explore a wide range of scenario and
solutions to support the completion of a
safe journey.

5. Key skills
• Literacy (textual and
visual)
• Characterisation
• Story structure
• Writing and editing
• Illustrating
• Mind mapping
• Collaboration
• Sequencing
• Hyperlinking
• Presentation
The competition is about the writing of a high quality
collaborative story

6. How to – suggestions
• A home button is useful to
allow readers to return to the
start. Insert in the Master Slide.
• A Back button allows readers to
return to the previous point in
the story
• If you are using PowerPoint,
Keynote, Pages or Word. For
specific help sheets refer to the
resources section
• Use large sheets of paper or
Post It notes to plan the story
and refer to these regularly.

7. How to – more suggestions
• Include the page numbers on
the plan so the different groups/
children know where to bring
their choices back to or where to
start their section
• There are a range of
applications
• Divide the mind map up into
the writing groups

8. How to – more suggestions
• If using a word processor set
page size to A5 and landscape
• Word processors use anchors
within the document.
• If you put a page number at
the start of the text and turn it
into an anchor this makes
them easy to find when you
do your linking
• Use your mind map to tick off
the pages as they are
completed and then again
when they are inserted into
the story and linked

9. How to – more suggestions
• Copy and paste or click
and drag to combine
stories
• Pictures must be saved as
jpegs
• Complete the hyperlinks
last – once you have all of
the text and the
illustrations
• Save regularly.

10. Enter by 27 July 2012 schools
Winning schools will be notified by 10
August 2012.
Check the terms and conditions online here
http://education.nzta.govt.nz/competitions/the-nzta-primary-
years-competition