ItemView has no method 'render' - marionette

I've just updated backbone.marionette from 0.9.3 to v1.0.0-beta4 and the following code is breaking:
PlansApp.CompositeView = Backbone.Marionette.CompositeView
PlansApp.ItemView = Backbone.Marionette.ItemVie
PlansApp.Plans.PlansList = do ({PlansApp, Backbone} = window) ->
PlansList = {}
PlansListItemView = PlansApp.ItemView.extend
initialize: ->
#bindTo this.model, "change", this.modelChanged
modelChanged: (model, value)->
this.render()
this.$el.effect("highlight", {}, 6000)
window.addTeachMeHandlers() if model.get 'IsFirst
It is specifically breaking on this.render() with the error message:
Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'render'
This code previously used to work before the upgrade.
From looking at the source, ItemView still has a render method, so I am guessing the context is wrong or maybe bindTo has changed.
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