Engagement of the Reader

1) With the Text

- Connects personal experience to the text

- Expresses creative, interesting, insightful views

- Says something meaningful

- Identifies with character(s), theme(s), setting(s), idea(s)

- Finds familiar elements in text (author, genre, character)

- Relates text to other texts (literary or media)

- Sees parallels between literature and life

- Supports views with reasons

2) With the Responding Process

- Has definite point of view

- Responds with confidence

- Can express an opposing view in a positive way

- Remains open-minded, can change point of view

- Takes risks and tries to read between the lines

- Describes own response process - Considers multiple points of view and meanings

- Uses technology to enhance communication

- Has mixed reaction, sees both postive and negative elements

Making Sense of the Text

- Goes beyond summarising plot

- Forms an opinion about text or elements of the text

- Supports opinion with evidence from text

- Goes beyond personal taste to find value in a text

- Asks questions about the text

- Makes predictions about the story

- Tries to read between the lines - Struck by a particular aspect of text and explores it

- Introduces a new idea into the discussion

Awareness of Literary Conventions

- Aware that literature is a particular way of understanding the world

- Questions author's intentions or point of view

- Comments on the way text is written (style, language, imagery)

- Refers to genre elements, such as: character, setting, action, theme, atmosphere, point of view, symbols, conflict (May use the concept without using the correct term.)

- Uses evidence from text to support views

 

Group Work Skills

- Demonstrates serious approach

- Acknowledges individual members of the group

- Acknowledges group as a learning community

- Adopts a respectful tone towards others

- Asks others thought

-provoking questions

- Can build on and encourage comments of others

- Supports opinions of others

- Able to stimulate discussion with own comments

- Asks for clarification, more information

- Argues politely for own point of view

- Corrects definite factual errors

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