Performance+Standards

=Performance Standards for this Stage 1 English Communications exam=

Knowledge and understanding of the ways in which the readers and creators of familiar and unfamiliar texts use a range of language techniques to make meaning Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the ways in which familiar and unfamiliar texts are composed for a range of purposes and audiences || Analysis of complex connections between personal experiences, ideas, values, and beliefs, and those explored in familiar and unfamiliar texts Perceptive analysis of a range of ways in which authors use language techniques to influence opinions and decisions in familiar and unfamiliar texts || Use of a range of sophisticated language skills to analyse and solve simple and complex problems, and to demonstrate creativity Detailed and appropriate use of evidence from texts to support arguments, with textual references incorporated fluently in responses Location, recording, analysis, use, and synthesis of knowledge relevant to familiar and unfamiliar contexts || Fluent and precise writing and speaking Use of appropriate style and structure for a range of mainly unfamiliar audiences and for varied purposes || Knowledge and understanding of the ways in which the readers and creators of mainly familiar texts use some language techniques to make meaning Knowledge and understanding of the ways in which mainly familiar texts are composed for some purposes and audiences || Analysis of some complex connections between personal experiences, ideas, values, and beliefs, and those explored in familiar, and some unfamiliar, texts Analysis of a range of ways in which authors use language techniques to influence opinions and decisions in familiar, and some unfamiliar, texts || Use of a range of language skills to solve simple and complex problems, and to demonstrate creativity Use of evidence from texts to support arguments, with textual references incorporated in responses Location, recording, analysis, use, and occasional synthesis of knowledge relevant to mostly familiar contexts || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mostly fluent and precise writing and speaking <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use of appropriate style and structure for a range of mostly familiar audiences and purposes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Knowledge and understanding of a restricted number of ways in which the readers and creators of a narrow range of familiar texts use some language techniques to make meaning (e.g. reads a range of texts, noting key differences of presentation and layout (R3)) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Knowledge and understanding of the ways in which familiar texts are composed for familiar purposes and audiences (e.g. identifies purpose and audience of texts (R3)) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis of simple connections between personal experiences, ideas, values, and beliefs, and those explored in familiar texts (e.g. explicitly connects new ideas/information with own knowledge, using techniques such as anecdotes and analogies (L3)) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Descriptive analysis of a number of ways in which authors use language techniques to influence opinions and decisions in familiar texts (e.g. recognises that the author selects the structure of a text to serve a particular purpose (R3)) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use of language skills to solve routine problems in familiar contexts or to demonstrate creativity (e.g. writes a short formal letter, outlining instructions for a particular purpose such as closing a bank account (W3)) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Competent use of evidence from texts to support arguments (e.g. reads short simple narrative of choice and discusses how text reflects author’s opinion (R3)) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Location, recording, and occasional analysis and use of knowledge relevant to a familiar context (e.g. reads and interprets diagrammatic/graphic texts that are unambiguously presented (R3)) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Occasionally fluent and precise writing and speaking <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use of an appropriate style and structure for familiar audiences and purposes (e.g. produces a range of familiar text types, with appropriate structures (W3); uses vocabulary with increasing precision to show how words carry particular shades of meaning (W3)) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Knowledge and understanding of some of the ways in which the readers and creators of a narrow range of familiar texts use language techniques to make simple or factual meaning <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Knowledge of the ways in which familiar texts are composed for personally relevant purposes and familiar audiences || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reference to simple connections between uncomplicated personal experiences, ideas, values, and beliefs, and those explored in familiar texts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reference to some ways in which authors of familiar texts use a narrow range of language techniques to influence opinions and decisions || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use of a restricted range of language skills to solve simple problems in familiar contexts or to demonstrate some creativity <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some use of evidence from familiar texts to support arguments <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Location, recording, and use of factual knowledge relevant to a familiar context || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A level of fluency in writing and speaking in personally relevant situations <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use of appropriate style and structure for a narrow range of familiar audiences and purposes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Knowledge and understanding of the way in which a reader or creator of a highly familiar text uses a language technique to make factual meaning. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Knowledge of the ways in which highly familiar texts are composed for personally relevant purposes and highly familiar audiences || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Recognition of a simple connection between a straightforward personal experience, idea, value, or belief, and that explored in a highly familiar text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reference to the way in which an author of a highly familiar text uses language techniques to influence opinions and decisions || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use of a restricted range of language skills to solve simple problems in highly familiar contexts or to demonstrate creativity <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some use of evidence from highly familiar texts to support a simple argument <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Location, recording, or use of factual knowledge relevant to a highly familiar context || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Beginning of development of accurate and fluent writing and speaking in personally relevant situations <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use of appropriate style and structure for a narrow range of highly familiar audiences and purposes ||
 * || **Knowledge and Understanding** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.3333px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis ** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.3333px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Application ** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.3333px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Communication ** ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.3333px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Detailed knowledge and understanding of the ideas, values, and beliefs in familiar and unfamiliar texts
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.3333px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Knowledge and understanding of some complex ideas, values, and beliefs in familiar, and some unfamiliar, texts
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.3333px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Knowledge and understanding of some simple ideas, values, or beliefs in familiar texts (e.g. identifies relevant information from a range of written texts (R3))
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.3333px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Identification of some simple ideas in familiar texts
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.3333px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">E || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Identification of a simple idea in a highly familiar text.