Text innovation
You can use text innovation to help your students manipulate the language in a task where they still have the security of predictable sentence patterns from the original piece of text. For example, for a text innovation task, try using the He Purapura story E Haere Ana ngā Kararehe ki Hea?, which is about some animals going to a birthday party. Once the students have modified the text, get them to work together to create a dramatisation of their new version of the story.