LEVEL 4 READING

Year 7: Above Expected : Year 8: Expected

I AM A BEGINNER I AM DEVELOPING I AM ACHIEVING I AM AN EXPERT

I have knowledge of With support I Mostly I understand and I understand and use
grammar. understand and use use academic academic vocabulary that
academic vocabulary vocabulary that relates relates to my learning,
I have knowledge of
that relates to my to my learning, applying applying it to different
language features.
learning, applying it to it to different contexts, contexts, to find meaning.
I can use this knowledge different contexts, to to find meaning.
LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR I recognise grammatical
to find meaning in text. find meaning.
Mostly I recognise constructions and use these
With support I recognise grammatical to help my comprehension.
grammatical constructions and use
constructions and use these to help my
these to help my comprehension.
comprehension.

I can use and integrate a With support I can use Mostly I can use I can use comprehension
variety of comprehension comprehension strategies in flexible ways to
comprehension strategies in flexible strategies in flexible fully comprehend text.
strategies to understand. ways to fully ways to fully (Summarise, continually predict
comprehend text. comprehend text. and revise ideas, visualise, vary
COMPREHENSION I can use references to (Summarise, continually (Summarise, continually speed).
find meanings of words – predict and revise ideas, predict and revise ideas,
dictionaries. visualise, vary speed). visualise, vary speed).
I can infer meanings
using roots, affixes.

I use strategies to With support I can use a Mostly I can use a I can use a variety of
compare and evaluate variety of strategies to variety of strategies to strategies to gather and
INFORMATION information and ideas. gather and synthesise gather and synthesise synthesise information from a
GATHERING information from a range information from a range range of texts locating key
Identify key ideas and
of texts locating key of texts locating key ideas.
use them to summarise.
ideas ideas
PURPOSE I can evaluate a variety With support I can Mostly I can evaluate the I can evaluate the writer’s
AUDIENCE EVALUATION of texts and the evaluate the writer’s writer’s purposes and purposes and the use of
effectiveness in terms of purposes and the use of the use of language to language to suit those
purpose. language to suit those suit those purposes. purposes.
purposes.
 Mostly I can apply some I can apply some criteria to
With support I can apply
criteria to evaluate evaluate texts.
some criteria to evaluate
texts.
texts.

I can read independently With support I can select I can read independently I can select texts at my
for 30 minutes. texts at my reading level for 40 minutes. I can reading level to meet a
TEXT SELECTION to meet a specific select some texts to specific learning purpose.
I can select text with
learning purpose. meet a specific learning
support.
purpose.