Thursday 7 October 2010

Assessment Focuses for GCSE - AQA New Spec

It's interesting to see how these have been changed to fit the demands and requirements of English from 2010.

Speak to communicate clearly and purposefully; structure and sustain talk, adapting it to different situations and audiences; use standard English and a variety of techniques as appropriate.
Listen and respond to speakers’ ideas, perspectives and how they construct and express their meanings.
Interact with others, shaping meanings through suggestions, comments and questions and drawing ideas together.
Create and sustain different roles.
Read and understand texts, selecting material appropriate to purpose, collating from different sources and making comparisons and cross-references as appropriate.
Develop and sustain interpretations of writers’ ideas and perspectives.
Explain and evaluate how writers use linguistic, grammatical, structural and presentational features to achieve effects and engage and influence the reader.
Understand texts in their social, cultural and historical contexts.
Write clearly, effectively and imaginatively, using and adapting forms and selecting vocabulary appropriate to task and purpose in ways that engage the reader.
Organise information and ideas into structured and sequenced sentences, paragraphs and whole texts, using a variety of linguistic and structural features to support cohesion and overall coherence.
Use a range of sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate punctuation and spelling.
Recall, select and communicate their knowledge and understanding of media products and the context in which they are produced and consumed.
Analyse and respond to media texts/topics using media key concepts and appropriate terminology.
Demonstrate research, planning and presentation skills.
Construct and evaluate their own products using creative and technical skills.

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