Rubric of Literacy Assessment

Outcome/Criteria
Speaking and Listening: Student communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features

Excellent
The student communicates with known and unknown adults and peers to discuss a range of topics and current affairs in a variety of situations. The student understands social distance and level of formality and decides appropriately how to relate to people using this knowledge. The student selects, navigates and reads texts for a range of purposes in a variety of genres, eg novels, picture books, newspaper articles, factual texts. The student summarises a text and evaluates the intended message or theme. The student includes a recommendation. The student plans, drafts and publishes imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing the correct structure, language features (eg arguments) and writes for intended audience and with purpose. The student selects and uses a variety of sentence types when writing to accomplish a specific purpose, eg simple sentences to build tension in a narrative.

Good
The student communicates with known and unknown adults and peers in a range of situations and with an increasing range of non-familiar topics. The student attempts to vary the level of formality and social distance in each situation.

Satisfactory
The student communicates with known and unknown adults and peers in familiar situations and topics. Understanding that formality of speech changes in each situation eg uses formal speech when talking to teachers or peer when leading assembly. The student selects texts from personal collection or library to read daily.

Basic
The student communicates with known adults and peers on familiar topics understanding that there is a level of formality when talking to an adult.

Reading and Viewing: Student uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies

The student selects, navigates and reads texts for a range of purposes including daily reading for pleasure and one factual text a week. The student writes a summary of a text being read including an opinion and a recommendation.

The student selects a book from the class library to read when prompted.

The student writes a summary of a text being read including a recommendation.

The student writes a simple summary stating the theme of the text.

Writing and Representing: Student composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts Grammar and Punctuation: Student uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies

The student plans, drafts and publishes imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, experimenting with structure, language features (eg arguments) and understands the intended audience and purpose. The student experiments with a variety of sentence types when writing, including simple, compound and some complex sentences to meet a specific purpose.

The student plans, drafts and publishes imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, attempting to vary structure, language features, audience and purpose accordingly.

The student writes simple imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that show some elements of structure.

The student attempts to use simple, compound and some complex sentences in writing.

The student uses a combination of simple and compound sentences in writing.