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Reading

Assessment Focus Levels
Level Assessment focus
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 traditions

Writing

Assessment Focus Levels
Level Assessment focus
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

Mathematics

Assessment Focus Levels
Attainment target (AT) Assessment focuses (AFs)
Ma1 Using and applying mathematics - Problem solving
- Communicating
- Reasoning
Ma2 Number - levels 2 to 4

- Numbers and the number system
- Fractions, decimals (percentages and ratio at level 4)
- Operations and relationships between them
- Mental methods
- Solving numerical problems
- Written methods
Ma2 Number - level 5 and above - Numbers and the number system
- Fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion
- Operations and relationships between them
- Mental, written and calculator methods
- Solving numerical problems
- Algebra
Ma3 Shape, space and measures - Properties of shape
- Properties of position and movement
- Measures
Ma4 Handling data - levels 2 to 4 - Processing and representing data
- Interpreting data
Ma4 Handling data - level 5 and above - Specifying the problem, planning and collecting data
- Processing and representing data
- Interpreting and discussing results

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