Assessment focus: ability to critically analyse and interpret a visual text, based on individual perception and the use of descriptors (visual/verbal/sound etc) to illustrate interpretation.
Students draw a strange space creature from an oral description. The assessment focus is on listening to descriptions, recalling details, and following instructions.
Students draw a strange sea creature from an oral description. The assessment focus is on listening to descriptions, recalling details, and following instructions.
Students read an extract from the narrative 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and answer a combination of multiple-choice and short answer questions.
Assessment focus: ability of students to use both knowledge acquired from the text and their own backgrounds. This task assesses student ability to critically engage with media texts.
An article about a female wrestler provides the context for this assessment that combines a retrieval chart with questions on alliteration, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Assessment focus: student ability to use contextual clues in order to infer the meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Using this Resource section.)
Students read an article and are assessed on their ability to retrieve information and to make inferences in response to two questions about geologists.