Level 7 – Listening, reading, and viewing
Processes and strategies
Students will:
- integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies purposefully, confidently, and precisely to identify, form, and express increasingly sophisticated ideas.
Indicators
- Selects and reads texts for enjoyment and personal fulfilment
- Recognises, understands, and appreciates the connections between oral, written, and visual language
- Integrates sources of information and prior knowledge purposefully, confidently, and precisely to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts
- Selects and uses appropriate processing and comprehension strategies with confidence and discrimination
- 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 a discriminating understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.
Indicators
- Recognises, understands, and appreciates how texts are constructed for a range of intentions and situations
- Identifies particular points of view within texts and understands that texts can position a reader
- Evaluates the reliability and usefulness of texts.
Ideas
- Show a discriminating understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts.
Indicators
- Makes meaning by understanding increasingly sophisticated ideas
- Makes connections by analysing ideas within and between texts from a range of contexts
- Understands that there may be multiple readings available within a text
- Makes and supports inferences from texts independently.
Language features
- Show a discriminating understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts.
Indicators
- Identifies a range of increasingly sophisticated oral, written, and visual language features and understands their effects
- Uses an increasing vocabulary to make meaning
- Understands and analyses how text conventions work together to create meaning and effect
- Understands that authors have different voices and styles and appreciates these differences.
Structure
- Show a discriminating understanding of a range of structures.
Indicator
- Identifies and understands the characteristics and conventions of a range of text forms, and appreciates how they contribute to and affect text meaning.
