The document outlines performance standards for Stage 2 English Communications. Standard A represents a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of texts and their conventions, and the ability to analyze, communicate, and apply skills in sophisticated ways for unfamiliar audiences and contexts. Standard B represents a sound knowledge and understanding of mainly familiar texts, the capacity to analyze familiar and some unfamiliar contexts, and the ability to communicate and apply skills clearly for a range of familiar and unfamiliar audiences.
The document outlines performance standards for Stage 2 English Communications. Standard A represents a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of texts and their conventions, and the ability to analyze, communicate, and apply skills in sophisticated ways for unfamiliar audiences and contexts. Standard B represents a sound knowledge and understanding of mainly familiar texts, the capacity to analyze familiar and some unfamiliar contexts, and the ability to communicate and apply skills clearly for a range of familiar and unfamiliar audiences.
The document outlines performance standards for Stage 2 English Communications. Standard A represents a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of texts and their conventions, and the ability to analyze, communicate, and apply skills in sophisticated ways for unfamiliar audiences and contexts. Standard B represents a sound knowledge and understanding of mainly familiar texts, the capacity to analyze familiar and some unfamiliar contexts, and the ability to communicate and apply skills clearly for a range of familiar and unfamiliar audiences.
The document outlines performance standards for Stage 2 English Communications. Standard A represents a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of texts and their conventions, and the ability to analyze, communicate, and apply skills in sophisticated ways for unfamiliar audiences and contexts. Standard B represents a sound knowledge and understanding of mainly familiar texts, the capacity to analyze familiar and some unfamiliar contexts, and the ability to communicate and apply skills clearly for a range of familiar and unfamiliar audiences.
Performance Standards for Stage 2 English Communications
Knowledge and Understanding Analysis
Application
Communication
Detailed and comprehensive knowledge
and understanding of the ways in which a wide variety of texts are shaped by the conventions of a particular form of expression or communication.
Perceptive analysis of a range of ways in
which authors use the conventions of different text types to influence opinions and decisions in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
Use of a wide range of language skills
and techniques to create sophisticated and coherent texts that address the meaning and intention of the task.
Fluent and precise writing and speaking,
using appropriate style and structure for a range of mainly unfamiliar audiences and contexts.
Knowledge and understanding of the
ways in which creators and readers of familiar and unfamiliar texts use a range of language techniques and strategies to make meaning.
Analysis of complex connections
between personal ideas, experiences, values, and beliefs, and those explored in familiar and unfamiliar texts.
Detailed and appropriate use of evidence
from texts to support responses, with textual references incorporated fluently.
Appropriate use of language to convey
mostly complex meaning in a range of unfamiliar contexts.
Detailed knowledge and understanding of
the ideas and themes in familiar and unfamiliar texts.
Comprehensive and analytical
understanding of the ideas, experiences, values, and beliefs explored in a range of familiar and unfamiliar texts.
Knowledge and understanding of a wide
range of ways of defining and attracting a target audience for familiar and unfamiliar texts and examples of communication.
Knowledge and understanding of the
ways in which a range of texts are shaped by the conventions of a particular form of expression or communication. Knowledge and understanding of the ways in which creators and readers of mainly familiar texts use some language techniques and strategies to make meaning. Knowledge and understanding of some ideas and themes in familiar, and some unfamiliar, texts. Knowledge and understanding of a range of ways of defining and attracting a target audience for mainly familiar texts and examples of communication.
Analysis of a range of ways in which
authors use the conventions of different text types to influence opinions and decisions in familiar, and some unfamiliar, contexts. Analysis of some complex and simple connections between personal ideas, experiences, values, and beliefs, and those explored in familiar, and some unfamiliar, texts. Analytical understanding of the ideas, experiences, values, and beliefs explored in a range of familiar, and some unfamiliar, texts.
Skills in using the structural,
conventional, and textual features of text types for a range of familiar and unfamiliar contexts, audiences, and purposes. Versatile and creative production of texts for a variety of familiar and unfamiliar contexts, audiences, and purposes.
Use of a range of language skills and
techniques to create clear and coherent texts that address the meaning and intention of the task.
Mostly fluent and precise writing and
speaking, using appropriate style and structure for a range of mostly familiar audiences and contexts.
Use of evidence from texts to support
responses, with textual references incorporated.
Appropriate use of language to convey
complex and simple meaning in a range of familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
Skills in using some of the structural,
conventional, and textual features of text types for a range of mainly familiar, and some unfamiliar, contexts, audiences, and purposes. Production of texts for a variety of mainly familiar, and some unfamiliar, contexts, audiences, and purposes.