What are the Assesment Focuses for English?

Answer 1

* AF1: Write imaginative, interesting and thoughtful texts * AF2: Produce texts which are appropriate to task, reader and purpose * AF3: Organise and present whole texts effectively, sequencing and structuring information, ideas and events * AF4: Construct paragraphs and use cohesion within and between paragraphs * AF5: Vary sentences for clarity, purpose and effect * AF6: Write with technical accuracy of syntax and punctuation in phrases, clauses and sentences * AF7: Select appropriate and effective vocabulary * AF8: Use correct spelling * AF1: Use a range of strategies, including accurate decoding of text, to read for meaning * AF2: Understand, describe, select or retrieve information, events or ideas from texts and use quotation and reference to text * AF3: Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts * AF4: Identify and comment on the structure and organisation of texts, including grammatical and presentational features at text level * AF5: Explain and comment on writers' uses of language, including grammatical and literary features at word and sentence level * AF6: Identify and comment on writers' purposes and viewpoints and the overall effect of the text on the reader * AF7: Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts and literary tradition