Stage 1 Essential English

Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts

Task 1: Reading Analysis

Aim: Analyse the differences between different texts.

Task:
1. Review the texts provided.
2. For each text, answer the following questions:
 What is the purpose of the text?
 Who is the intended audience of this text?
 What text type are these?
 What language features have been used to persuade the audience?
 Why do you think the creator created the text in this specific way?
3. Evaluate the text. What works? What doesn’t?
4. Suggest what the creator could have done to make the text more successful.

Assessment Conditions:
 Maximum of 800 words or the equivalent in multimodal form

Glossary
Audience
The group of readers, listeners, or viewers that the writer, designer, film-maker, or speaker is addressing.
Audience includes students in the classroom, an individual, the wider community, review writers,
critics, and the implied audience.

Language features
The features of language that support meaning (e.g. sentence structure, vocabulary, punctuation,
figurative language, framing, camera angles). These choices vary according to the purpose of a text,
its subject matter, audience, and communication mode.

Mode
The various processes of communication: listening, speaking, reading/viewing, and writing/creating.
Modes are also used to refer to the semiotic (meaning-making) resources associated with these
communicative processes (e.g. sound, print, image, gesture).

Multimodal text
Combination of two or more communication modes (e.g. writing and images).

Text types
Examples of text types include reports, essays, speeches, narratives, recounts, infographics, films,
stories, poems, novels, podcasts. These text types can be further classified according to the particular
purposes they are designed to achieve (e.g. informational, imaginative, interpretive, analytical, or
persuasive).

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Performance standards for Essential English
Stage 1
-  Communication Comprehension Analysis Application

A Consistently clear and
coherent writing and
speaking, using an
appropriate vocabulary.
Thorough demonstration of
grammatical control.
Detailed comprehension and
interpretation of complex
information, ideas, and
perspectives in a range of
texts.
Thorough understanding of
the purpose, structure, and
language features in texts.
Thorough analysis of ways Creation of complex texts for
in which creators of a range different purposes, using
of texts convey information, appropriate textual
ideas, and perspectives. conventions.
Identification and clear
analysis of ways in which
language features are used to
create meaning in a range in
texts.

B Mostly clear and coherent Detailed comprehension and Analysis of ways in which Creation of effective texts for
writing and speaking, using a interpretation of some creators of a range of texts different purposes, using
varied vocabulary. complex information, ideas, convey information, ideas, appropriate textual
and perspectives in texts. and perspectives. conventions.
Effective and usually
accurate grammatical Appropriate understanding of Identification and analysis of
control. the purpose, structure, and ways in which language
language features in texts. features are used to create
meaning in a range of texts.

C Generally clear writing and
speaking, using a mostly
appropriate vocabulary.
Appropriate grammatical
control: some errors, but
these do not impede
meaning.
Comprehension of some
information and ideas in
texts.
Recognition and
understanding of the
purpose, structure, and
language features in some
texts.
Identification, with some Creation of texts for some
basic analysis, of ways in purposes, using appropriate
which creators of a narrow textual conventions.
range of texts convey simple
information and ideas.
Identification, with some
basic analysis, of ways in
which language features are
used to create meaning in a
narrow range of texts.

D Occasionally clear writing
and speaking, with a
restricted vocabulary.
Partial grammatical control:
some errors impede
meaning.
Identification of information
and ideas in texts.
Some recognition and
awareness of the purpose,
structure, and/or language
features in some texts.
Reference to one or more Creation of texts for a
ways in which creators of a narrow range of purposes,
narrow range of texts convey using some textual
conventions.
simple information and
ideas.
Reference to some ways in
which language features are
used to create meaning in a
narrow range of texts.

E Limited clarity in writing and Identification of some Recognition of the way in Creation of a partial text for
speaking, with a limited information or ideas in a text. which a creator of a text a purpose, attempting to use
vocabulary. conveys a simple piece of appropriate textual
Limited recognition and conventions.
information or idea.
Limited grammatical control: awareness of the purpose,
errors impede meaning. structure, and language Reference to a way in which
features in a text. language features are used to
create meaning in a simple
text.

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