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ACSF Reading 3.03 Evaluates and integrates facts and ideas to construct meaning from a range of text types


READING LEVEL 3
3.01Evaluates and integrates facts and ideas to construct meaning from a range of text types
SUPPORTCONTEXTTEXTTASK COMPLEXITY

Moderate support

Advice and modelling available

Range of familiar contexts

Some less familiar/routine contexts

Some specialisation in routine contexts

Routine texts

May include some unfamiliar elements and embedded information

Includes some specialised vocabulary

Tasks include a number of steps within the 1 task, e.g. sequencing, applying basic inferencing, extrapolation and integration

PERFORMANCE FEATURES INCLUDE:

Purpose and audience
  • Identifies purpose and audience of texts across a range of familiar, and some unfamiliar, text types and Aspects of Communication
Complexity
  • Comprehends longer texts with limited complexity which require integration of a number of ideas and pieces of information
Prediction and prior knowledge
  • Draws on prior knowledge together with knowledge of textual cues and text structures to predict content and meaning
Text structure
  • Uses knowledge of familiar text structures to predict content and meaning
Textural analysis
  • Separates fact from opinion
  • Compares several pieces of information from 1 or more texts
  • Interprets and extrapolates from texts where information is presented in graphic, diagrammatic, formatted or visual formats
  • Uses knowledge of text to make inferences, e.g. uses cartoon to infer author’s stand on subject
Critical literacy
  • Identifies explicit and implicit meaning within a text, e.g. opinion piece
  • Recognises that an author uses text to serve a particular purpose, e.g. to appeal to or exclude a group
  • Recognises that the author selects the structure of a text to serve a particular purpose
  • Recognises that words and grammatical choices may carry particular shades of meaning in different contexts


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