A B C D EConventions of text Compares and evaluates the ways that a text uses vocabulary choices and language features for specific purposes. Explores the ways that a text uses images, vocabulary and language features to create layers of meaning.
Explains how images, vocabulary choices and language features are used to create meaning. Identifies how images, vocabulary choices and language features have been used in a text. Does not meet the requirements of a D grade.Evaluates and analyses how a text has been constructed to serve a specific purpose and appeal to a particular target audience. Explains how a text has been constructed for a specific audience and purpose. Describes the purpose of a text and target audience in some detail.
Identifies the purpose and target audience of the text in broad terms. Evaluates the way that characters, settings and events in a text can be used to shape readers’ understandings of different cultures, social groups and historical periods. Explains the way that characters, settings and events are used to represent ideas about different cultures, social groups and historical periods in a text. Describes the way that the representation of characters, settings and events in a text are influenced by different historical, social and cultural contexts. Identifies the way that characters, settings and events are represented in a text. Use of evidence Makes perceptive choices about integration of relevant ideas and information from and about a text to explain how it has influenced the reader.
Selects relevant examples and information from a text to explain how it has influenced the reader. Uses some examples from a text to explain how it has influenced the reader. Uses limited information from a text to describe characters or topics. Does not meet the requirements of a D grade.Language features Makes effective language choices and uses literary terminology appropriately.
Makes appropriate language choices and integrates literary terms correctly. Makes conventional language choices and uses familiar literary terms. Uses mostly simple language and some colloquial expressions that may be inappropriate for the task. Does not meet the requirements of a D grade.Constructs an introduction, establishing a clear line of argument with a focused thesis statement that is developed logically in the body of the essay. Constructs a clear introduction that addresses the question or topic and provides a specific focus for discussion in the body of the essay.
Constructs an introduction that broadly addresses key aspects of the question or topic. Provides a brief introduction that partially addresses the question or topic, including some specific details; for example, the text and author. Constructs an introduction, establishing a clear line of argument with a focused thesis statement that is developed logically in the body of the essay.Communication skills Speaks clearly with varied expression, using pace, pitch and pause to create interest, emphasis and engagement of an audience. Speaks clearly with expression, using pace, pitch and pause to create interest, emphasis and engagement of an audience. Speaks clearly with expression, and attempts to engage an audience.
Speaks with little expression and limited attempt to engage an audience. Does not meet the requirements of a D grade.
