English
Areas for Assessment
Reading, listening, viewing
Writing, speaking, representing
Communicating and context
Analysing language
Interpretive, imaginative and critical thinking
Expressing views
Grade A
A student at this grade typically:
- through close and wide study, responds to a comprehensive range of demanding, imaginative, factual and critical texts
- perceptively investigates the context and perspective of texts and the relationships between and among them
- constructively and critically analyses and evaluates complex texts by selecting, describing and explaining significant language forms and features and structures of those texts
- responds imaginatively and critically in a highly effective way to verbal and visual imagery
- displays a distinct personal style, composes with confidence, spoken, written, visual, multimodal and digital texts, for a wide variety of purposes, audiences and contexts
- is able to generalise confidently from engaging with texts to present a wide variety of views of the world
- consistently demonstrates an understanding of the processes of composition, as they are able to infer logically, interpret clearly, extend their imaginations in composing texts and adapt ideas into new and different contexts
- with confidence, is able to conform to, or challenge, an audience’s preconceptions and expectations
- independently reflects on and confidently uses, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning.
Grade B
A student at this grade typically:
- through close and wide study, responds to demanding, imaginative, factual and critical texts
- investigates with some insight the context and perspective of texts and the relationships between and among them
- closely and critically analyses and evaluates texts of increasing complexity by selecting, describing and explaining appropriate language forms, and features and structures of those texts
- responds imaginatively and critically in an effective way to verbal and visual imagery
- displays a developing personal style, composes with confidence, spoken, written, visual, multimodal and digital texts for a variety of purposes, audiences and contexts
- is able to generalise from engaging with texts to present a range of views of the world
- clearly demonstrates an understanding of the processes of composition, as they are able to make some inferences and interpretations, extend their imaginations in composing texts and adapt ideas into new and different contexts
- with increasing confidence, is able to conform to, or challenge, an audience’s preconceptions and expectations
- independently reflects on and uses, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning.
Grade C
A student at this grade typically:
- through close and wide study, responds to a range of imaginative, factual and critical texts
- investigates the context and perspective of texts and the relationships between and among them
- analyses and discusses texts by selecting, identifying and explaining appropriate language forms and features and structures of those texts
- responds imaginatively to verbal and visual imagery
- displays a developing personal style, composes spoken, written, visual, multimodal and digital texts for a variety of purposes, audiences and contexts
- is able to generalise from engaging with texts to present differing views of the world
- demonstrates an understanding of the processes of composition as they are able to make some inferences and interpretations, extend their imaginations in composing texts and adapt ideas into new and different contexts
- conforms to, or challenges, an audience’s preconceptions and expectations
- with increasing independence, reflects on and uses, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning.
Grade D
A student at this grade typically:
- demonstrates some ability to respond to a range of texts
- discusses the context and perspective of texts and the relationships between and among them
- discusses texts by selecting, identifying and explaining some language forms and features and structures of those texts
- responds to verbal and visual imagery
- composes spoken, written, visual, multimodal and digital texts for different purposes, audiences and contexts
- is able to generalise at times from engaging with texts to present some differing views of the world
- with guidance, is developing a personal style and an understanding of the processes of composition as they are able to make some obvious inferences and interpretations, extend their imaginations in making meaning and apply ideas to new contexts
- is able to identify and discuss some obvious preconceptions and expectations of an audience
- with guidance, is able to reflect on their individual and collaborative skills for learning.
Grade E
A student at this grade typically:
- demonstrates some evidence of the ability to respond to a limited range of texts
- with teacher support, discusses the context and perspective of texts and the relationships between and among them
- with teacher support, discusses texts by selecting, identifying and explaining some language forms and features and structures of those texts
- responds in a rudimentary way to verbal and visual imagery
- with teacher support, composes spoken, written, visual, multimodal and digital texts for a limited range of purposes, audiences and contexts
- is able to generalise at times from engaging with texts to present a limited view of the world
- with teacher support, is developing an understanding of the processes of composition, as they are able to interpret ideas and apply these to new contexts
- is able to identify some obvious expectations of an audience
- with teacher support, is able to reflect on some aspects of their individual and collaborative skills for learning.