Curriculum for Excellence

Understanding, analysing and evaluating

– investigating and/or appreciating texts with increasingly complex ideas, structures and specialist vocabulary for different purposes
Early First Second Third Fourth
To help me understand stories and other texts, I ask questions and link what I am learning with what I already know.

*Responsibility of all

I can show my understanding of what I listen to or watch by responding to and asking different kinds of questions.

*Responsibility of all

I can show my understanding of what I listen to or watch by responding to literal, inferential, evaluative and other types of questions, and by asking different kinds of questions of my own.

*Responsibility of all

I can show my understanding of what I listen to or watch by commenting, with evidence, on the content and form of short and extended texts.

*Responsibility of all

I can show my understanding of what I listen to or watch by giving detailed, evaluative comments, with evidence, about the content and form of short and extended texts.

*Responsibility of all

  To help me develop an informed view, I am learning to recognise the difference between fact and opinion.

*Responsibility of all

To help me develop an informed view, I can distinguish fact from opinion, and I am learning to recognise when my sources try to influence me and how useful these are.

*Responsibility of all

To help me develop an informed view, I am learning about the techniques used to influence opinion and how to assess the value of my sources, and I can recognise persuasion.

*Responsibility of all

To help me develop an informed view, I can identify some of the techniques used to influence or persuade and can assess the value of my sources.

*Responsibility of all