Level 3 – Listening, reading, and viewing
Processes and strategies
Students will:
- integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies with developing confidence to identify, form, and express ideas.
Indicators
- Selects and reads texts for enjoyment and personal fulfilment
- Recognises and understands the connections between oral, written, and visual language
- Integrates sources of information and prior knowledge with developing confidence to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts
- Selects and uses a range of processing and comprehension strategies with growing understanding and confidence
- Thinks critically about texts with developing confidence
- Monitors, self-evaluates, and describes progress with growing confidence.
By using these processes and strategies when listening, reading, or viewing, students will:
Purposes and audiences
- Show a developing understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.
Indicators
- Recognises and understands how texts are constructed for a range of purposes, audiences, and situations
- Identifies particular points of view and begins to recognise that texts can position a reader
- Evaluates the reliability and usefulness of texts with increasing confidence.
Ideas
- Show a developing understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts.
Indicators
- Uses their personal experience and world and literacy knowledge confidently to make meaning from texts
- Makes meaning of increasingly complex texts by identifying main and subsidiary ideas in them
- Starts to make connections by thinking about underlying ideas in and between texts
- Recognises that there may be more than one reading available within a text
- Makes and supports inferences from texts with increasing independence.
Language features
- Show a developing understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts.
Indicators
- Identifies oral, written, and visual language features used in texts and recognises their effects
- Uses an increasing vocabulary to make meaning
- Shows an increasing knowledge of how a range of text conventions can be used appropriately
- Knows that authors have different voices and styles, and can identify some of these differences.
Structure
- Organise texts, using a range of appropriate structures.
Indicators
- Understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences, paragraphs, and images contribute to and affect text meaning
- Identifies a range of text forms and recognises some of their characteristics and conventions.
