English Assessment Map – Sample at Level 3
Meerkat Powerpoint
The stimulus for this task was a website containing information about meerkats. The pages within this site were linked to each other. Students were given time to browse the entire site (6 pages). The teacher offered assistance in navigating the site, if needed, but did not discuss its contents or the meaning of the index headings.
Students had 20 minutes to find the relevant information to answer a set of questions. They were expected to answer the questions without assistance from other students or their teacher.
Meerkats Website
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The following sample illustrates the kind of response that students typically produce when they have achieved the elements of the standard addressed by this task.
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Questions 1–5: The student reads and responds to new information presented on the website.
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Questions 1–2: The student readily comprehends information directly stated in word and visual texts.
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Question 3: The student identifies the main point about social behavior.
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Question 4: The student understands the purpose of, and is able to use, a textual feature in an e-text.
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Questions 5–6: The student navigates and uses simple research strategies on the website.
Elements of the standard
The elements of the Reading standard addressed by this task are:
(Students) read and respond to an increasing range of imaginative and informative texts with some unfamiliar ideas and information, vocabulary and textual features.
(Students) interpret the main ideas and purpose of texts.
(Students) infer meaning from material presented in informative texts.
(Students) use several strategies to locate, select and record key information from texts.
Meerkat photographs courtesy Merrill Hogan
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