Level 3 – Speaking, writing, presenting
Processes and strategies
Students will:
- integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies with developing confidence to identify, form, and express ideas.
Indicators
- Uses a developing understanding of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts
- Creates a range of texts by integrating sources of information and processing strategies with developing confidence
- Seeks feedback and makes changes to texts to improve clarity, meaning, and effect
- Is reflective about the production of own texts: monitors and self-evaluates progress, articulating learning with growing confidence.
By using these processes and strategies when speaking, writing, or presenting, students will:
Purposes and audiences
- Show a developing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences.
Indicators
- Constructs texts that show a growing awareness of purpose and audience through careful choice of content, language, and text form
- Conveys and sustains personal voice where appropriate.
Ideas
- Select, form, and communicate ideas on a range of topics.
Indicators
- Forms and expresses ideas and information with increased clarity, drawing on a range of sources
- adds or changes details and comments to support ideas, showing some selectivity in the process
- Ideas suggest awareness of a range of dimensions or viewpoints.
Language features
- Use language features appropriately, showing a developing understanding of their effects.
Indicators
- Uses oral, written, and visual language features to create meaning and effect, and engage interest
- Uses a range of vocabulary to communicate meaning
- Demonstrates good understanding of all basic spelling patterns and sounds in written English
- Uses an increasing range of strategies to self-monitor and self-correct spelling
- Writes legibly, fluently, and with ease when creating texts
- Uses a range of text conventions, including most grammatical conventions, appropriately and with increasing accuracy.
Structure
- Organise texts, using a range of appropriate structures.
Indicators
- Organises written ideas into paragraphs with increasing confidence
- Organises and sequences ideas and information with increasing confidence
- Uses a variety of sentence structures, beginnings, and lengths.
