Curriculum for Excellence

Understanding, analysing and evaluating

– investigating and/or appreciating fiction and non-fiction 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.

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To show my understanding across different areas of learning, I can identify and consider the purpose and main ideas of a text.

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To show my understanding across different areas of learning, I can identify and consider the purpose and main ideas of a text and use supporting detail.

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To show my understanding across different areas of learning, I can:
  • identify and consider the purpose, main concerns or concepts and use supporting detail
  • make inferences from key statements
  • identify and discuss similarities and differences between different types of text.

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To show my understanding across different areas of learning, I can:
  • clearly state the purpose, main concerns, concepts or arguments and use supporting detail
  • make inferences from key statements and state these accurately in my own words
  • compare and contrast different types of text.

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  To show my understanding, I can respond to different kinds of questions and other close reading tasks and I am learning to create some questions of my own.
To show my understanding, I can respond to literal, inferential and evaluative questions and other close reading tasks and can create different kinds of questions of my own.
To show my understanding, I can comment, with evidence, on the content and form of short and extended texts, and respond to literal, inferential and evaluative questions and other types of close reading tasks.
To show my understanding, I can give detailed, evaluative comments, with evidence, on the content and form of short and extended texts, and respond to different kinds of questions and other types of close reading tasks.
  To help me develop an informed view, I can recognise the difference between fact and opinion.

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To help me develop an informed view, I can identify and explain the difference between fact and opinion, recognise when I am being influenced, and have assessed how useful and believable my sources are.

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To help me develop an informed view, I am exploring the techniques used to influence my opinion. I can recognise persuasion and assess the reliability of information and credibility and value of my sources.

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To help me develop an informed view, I can recognise persuasion and bias, identify some of the techniques used to influence my opinion, and assess the reliability of information and credibility and value of my sources.

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I enjoy exploring events and characters in stories and other texts, sharing my thoughts in different ways.

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I can share my thoughts about structure, characters and/or setting, recognise the writer’s message and relate it to my own experiences, and comment on the effective choice of words and other features.
I can:
  • discuss structure, characterisation and/or setting
  • recognise the relevance of the writer’s theme and how this relates to my own and others’ experiences
  • discuss the writer’s style and other features appropriate to genre.
I can:
  • discuss and evaluate the structure, characterisation and/or setting using some supporting evidence
  • identify the main theme of the text and recognise the relevance this has to my own and others’ experiences
  • identify and comment on aspects of the writer’s style and other features appropriate to genre using some relevant evidence.
I can:
  • discuss and evaluate the effectiveness of structure, characterisation and/or setting using some supporting evidence
  • identify how the writer’s main theme or central concerns are revealed and can recognise how they relate to my own and others’ experiences
  • identify and make a personal evaluation of the effect of aspects of the writer’s style and other features appropriate to genre using some relevant evidence and terminology.