Level 5 – Listening, reading, and viewing
Processes and strategies
Students will:
- Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies purposefully and confidently to identify, form, and express increasingly sophisticated ideas.
Indicators
- Selects and reads texts for enjoyment and personal fulfilment
- Recognises, understands, and considers the connections between oral, written, and visual language
- Integrates sources of information and prior knowledge purposefully and confidently to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts
- Selects and uses appropriate processing and comprehension strategies with confidence
- Thinks critically about texts with understanding and confidence
- Monitors, self-evaluates, and describes progress, articulating learning with confidence.
By using these processes and strategies when listening, reading, or viewing, students will:
Purposes and audiences
- Show an understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.
Indicators
- Recognises, understands, and considers how texts are constructed for a range of purposes, audiences, and situations
- Identifies particular points of view within texts and recognises that texts can position a reader
- Evaluates the reliability and usefulness of texts with confidence.
Ideas
- Show an understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts.
Indicators
- Makes meaning by understanding increasingly comprehensive ideas in texts and the links between them
- Makes connections by exploring ideas within and between texts from a range of contexts
- Recognises that there may be more than one reading available within a text
- Makes and supports inferences from texts independently.
Language features
- Show an understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts.
Indicators
- Identifies oral, written, and visual language features and understands their effects
- Uses an increasing vocabulary to make meaning
- Understands how a range of text conventions work together to create meaning and effect
- Understands that authors have different voices and styles and can identify those differences.
Structure
- Show an understanding of a range of structures.
Indicators
- Identifies and understands the characteristics and conventions of a range of text forms, and considers how they contribute to and affect text meaning.
