English Assessment Map – Sample at Level 4
Posters
Students were shown three posters and asked to interpret purpose and identify symbolic meaning via a set of questions.
Students had 20 minutes to find the relevant information to answer the questions. They were expected to answer the questions without assistance from other students or their teacher.
The posters have not been included in the sample.
Three posters, all carrying the slogan ‘Libraries are Great!’
POSTER 1: This poster shows children’s story time in the library. The children are actively and happily involved, reading books, and are sitting with parents who are also happily engaging with their children.
POSTER 2: This poster shows teenagers in groups or pairs making use of books, magazines, computers and DVDs in the library.
POSTER 3: This poster shows some older people sitting singularly using the library to read newspapers or research on the computer.
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.
4. Imagine that there is going to be a fourth poster in this set. It will need to target a different audience to the other three, but it needs to fit in with the other posters in the set.
Tell the artist what to draw.
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Question 1: The student understands that the poster has been designed to persuade the viewer that libraries are a great place for young families and provides evidence to show how various features of the poster contribute to the message.
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Question 2: The student makes a clear link between the images in the poster and the message of the poster.
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Question 3: The student constructs a plausible alternative interpretation using evidence from the poster.
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Question 4: The student conceives a poster designed to appeal to a particular audience, consistent with the sample posters.
The elements of the Reading standard addressed by this task are:
(Students) read, interpret and respond to a … range of … everyday and media texts …
(Students) … analyse texts and support interpretations with evidence drawn from the text.
(Students) describe how texts are constructed for particular purposes …
(Students) analyse imagery …
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