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English Indicators Term 3
2. Uses Simple Future tenses and high frequency words to make predictions.
3. Identifies the choices made by a character to evaluate them.
4. Uses evidence found in a text to support his opinion.
6. Produces a narrative text to provide a new approach to an adventure story and offer alternative solutions.
7. Uses metacognitive strategies to establish criteria for his own monitoring process.
8. Writes a short paragraph to reflect on pros and cons of his action plan.
- Reads texts about school adventures to clearly outline the plot.
- Excelente: Plot outline is comprehensive and includes main and secondary characters, setting, rising and falling action, climax, and resolution; reads fluently and with accurate pronunciation.
- Sobresaliente: Plot outline is clear and includes characters, setting, important events, climax, and resolution; reads fluently and with mostly accurate pronunciation.
- Bueno: Plot outline is guided by proposed questions and recognizes characters, climax, and resolution; reads at a basic level and/or mispronounces some unknown words.
- Insuficiente: Plot outline is incomplete; reads with inaccurate pronunciation and/or mispronounces common words.
- Deficiente: Plot outline is incomprehensible; reading and/or pronunciation lack coherence.
2. Uses Simple Future tenses and high frequency words to make predictions.
- Excelente: Accurately and independently uses Simple Future tense (negative, question and affirmative forms) to make a prediction about the text. His prediction includes essential and specific information from the text; no grammar or spelling mistakes are present and all high frequency words are spelled and used correctly.
- Sobresaliente: Guided by questions, accurately uses Simple Future tense (negative, question, affirmative forms) to make a prediction about the text. His prediction includes all the main information and is detailed; a few spelling mistakes are still present but don't affect comprehension. Seldom grammar and spelling mistakes are present and a wide range of high frequency words are used and spelled correctly.
- Bueno: Guided by questions, accurately uses Simple Future tense (negative, question, affirmative forms) to make a prediction about the text. His prediction has most of the main information; a few spelling mistakes are still present but do not affect comprehension. Most high frequency words are used and spelled correctly.
- Insuficiente: Inaccurate use of Simple Future tense in one or more of the three forms and therefore makes unclear predictions about the text; many verb and spelling mistakes are present and affect comprehension. Very few high frequency words are used and/or are often spelled incorrectly.
- Deficiente: Never or hardly ever uses Simple Future tense in any of the three forms; unable to make a prediction with the main information of the story. Spelling and grammar mistakes are frequent and make the written production incomprehensible; no high frequency words are used correctly.
3. Identifies the choices made by a character to evaluate them.
- Excelente: His evaluation shows a deep understanding of the choice made and clearly states his position toward it using details and examples from the text. His ideas take into account the morality of the decision, its effectiveness, and/or another evaluative aspect.
- Sobresaliente: His evaluation shows understanding of the choice made and clearly states his position toward it, taking into account the morality of the decision and its effectiveness.
- Bueno: His evaluation shows understanding of the choice made and clearly states his position toward it, taking into account the effectiveness of that choice.
- Insuficiente: His evaluation lacks understanding of the choice and/or is unable to state a clear position toward it.
- Deficiente: His evaluation is incomprehensible and/or is unable to identify an important choice made by a character.
4. Uses evidence found in a text to support his opinion.
- Excelente: Opinion is well-structured and detailed. He gives several arguments to support his ideas and includes two or more direct quotes from the text. No spelling or grammar mistakes.
- Sobresaliente: Opinion provides a clear supporting argument and uses at least one direct quote from the text. Seldom spelling and grammar mistakes are present.
- Bueno: Opinion is well-structured and provides a supporting argument from the text. A few spelling and grammar mistakes are present, but do not affect comprehension.
- Insuficiente: Opinion is structured in an unclear and confusing way. Many spelling and grammar mistakes are present and affect comprehension.
- Deficiente: Opinion lacks structure and fails to provide a clear argument. Spelling and grammar mistakes are frequent and make written production incomprehensible.
- Excelente: Provides a detailed description of two or more clear, original connections to his life by identifying key motivations of a character and using specific examples from the text.
- Sobresaliente: Clearly describes one connection to his life by identifying key motivations of a character and referring to the text.
- Bueno: Describes one connection to his life by identifying key motivations of a character.
- Insuficiente: Struggles to identify the motivations of the main character and/or cannot connect them to his own life.
- Deficiente: Does not identify the motivations of the main character ‘or any connection to his own life.
6. Produces a narrative text to provide a new approach to an adventure story and offer alternative solutions.
- Excelente: Creates a detailed, well-structured narrative about an original adventure and offers alternative solutions to a problem. No spelling or grammar mistakes are present.
- Sobresaliente: Creates a well-structured narrative about an original adventure and offers alternative solutions to a problem or problems. Seldom spelling and grammar mistakes are present.
- Bueno: Creates a narrative about an original adventure and offers an alternative solution to a problem or problems. A few spelling and grammar mistakes are present, but do not affect comprehension.
- Insuficiente: Creates an unoriginal narrative, and there is not a clear presentation of a problem in the story or alternatives to solve it. Many spelling and grammar mistakes are present and affect comprehension.
- Deficiente: Narrative is not original or related to adventures; no problems or solutions are discussed. Spelling and grammar mistakes are frequent and make the written production incomprehensible.
7. Uses metacognitive strategies to establish criteria for his own monitoring process.
- Excelente: When elaborating his criteria includes management of time, effectiveness of the cognitive strategies used and elements related to the teacher’s and peers’ feedback.
- Sobresaliente: Includes within his criteria the efficiency and effectiveness of the cognitive strategies used related to his performance.
- Bueno: His criteria are based on the comparison of the cognitive strategies used with his performance, proposing corresponding adjustments
- Insuficiente: His criteria relate the use of cognitive strategies but the proposed adjustments are not adequate.
- Deficiente: The criteria he establishes are not related to the results of its performance.
8. Writes a short paragraph to reflect on pros and cons of his action plan.
- Excelente: Analyzes the benefit of designing an action plan emphasizing the use of pros and cons.
- Sobresaliente: Generalizes the use of pros and cons described in the action plan.
- Bueno: Evaluates the benefits of the pros described in the action plan.
- Insuficiente: Makes a list of pros and cons that do not necessarily relate to his action plan.
- Deficiente: Shows difficulties identifying pros and cons and/or an action plan.
Term 2 English Indicators
- Read texts about the rainforest to identify important events.
- Excelente: The events identified are comprehensive and directly related to the main characteristics of the story. The student offers a clear, detailed depiction of all the important facts that build up the story plot.
- Sobresaliente: The events are identified includes the main characteristics of the story and offers a clear and detailed depiction of almost all of the important facts that build up the story plot.
- Bueno: The events identified includes the main characteristics of the story and offers a depiction of most of the important facts that build up the story plot.
- Insuficiente: The events identified is not related to the main characteristics of the story and/or does not offer a clear depiction of the important facts that build up the story plot.
- Deficiente: The events cannot be identified due to lack of comprehension; incapable of providing a clear depiction of the important facts that build up the story plot.
2. Uses Simple and Progressive Past tenses and high frequency words to summarize information.
- Excelente: Accurately uses Simple and Progressive Past tenses (negative, question, affirmative forms) to summarize a text. His summary has all the essential elements needed to give a vivid description and details to demonstrate a deep understanding of the reading. No spelling or grammar mistakes are present; all high frequency words are used and spelled correctly.
- Sobresaliente: Accurately uses Simple and Progressive Past tenses (negative, question, affirmative forms) to summarize a text. His summary has all the essential elements needed to give a complete description of the reading. No spelling or grammar mistakes; a wide range of high frequency words are used and spelled correctly.
- Bueno: Accurately uses Simple and Progressive Past tenses (negative, question, affirmative forms) to give a summary of a text. His summary has most of the essential elements needed to give a basic description of the reading. A few spelling and grammar mistakes are still present but do not affect comprehension. Most high frequency words are used and spelled correctly.
- Insuficiente: Struggles to use Simple and Progressive Past tenses (negative, question, affirmative forms) and/or is unable to use it to write a summary of a text. His summary lacks most of the elements needed to give a basic description of the reading. Many verb and spelling mistakes are present and affect comprehension. Very few high frequency words are used and/or are often spelled incorrectly.
- Deficiente: Never or hardly ever uses Simple and Progressive Past tenses accurately in any of its forms. His summary has few to none of the elements needed to give a basic description of the reading. Grammar and spelling mistakes are frequent and make written production incomprehensible. No high frequency words are used correctly.
3. Identifies the sequence of events in a text to take a position about the character’s actions.
- Excelente: Identifies all of the essential events in a text (both peripheral and central) and sees how these events fit together in a substantial way to form a plot; articulates several clear positions concerning some important aspect of the characters’ actions (morality, efficacy, etc). Uses information about the sequence of events in order to support his arguments.
- Sobresaliente: Identifies almost all the essential events in a text and sees how these events fit together in a substantial way to from a plot; articulates a clear position concerning at least one important aspect of the characters’ actions (morality, efficacy, etc) taking into account the sequence of events.
- Bueno: Identifies most of the essential events in a text and sees how these events fit together in a basic way to form a plot; articulates a position concerning at least one aspect of the characters’ actions (morality, efficacy, etc).
- Insuficiente: Identifies only a few of the essential events in a text and struggles to see how these events fit together; unable to form a position about the characters’ actions.
- Deficiente: Unable to identify of the essential events in a text, and he therefore is not able to say how any of the events fit together to form a plot; has no opinion or position about characters’ actions.
4. Identifies evidence in the text to validate his ideas.
- Excelente: Argument is well-structured and identifies specific, comprehensive evidence from the text to clearly express an opinion; explains the opinion with an extensive justification using two or more relevant supports from the text. No spelling or grammar mistakes are present.
- Sobresaliente: Argument is well-structured and identifies original ideas from the text to clearly express an opinion; explains the opinion with a clear justification using one relevant support from the text. Seldom spelling and grammar mistakes are present.
- Bueno: Argument identifies a relevant part of the text to express an opinion; explains the opinion with a basic justification. A few spelling and grammar mistakes are still present but do not affect comprehension.
- Insuficiente: Argument lacks a clear identification of relevant information from the text and therefore produces a weak or unjustified opinion with unclear or insufficient support. Many spelling and grammar mistakes are present and affect comprehension.
- Deficiente: Does not provide an argument and/or identifies in any clear way relevant information from the text; does not express any sort of opinion regarding the text and has no support for an argument about an opinion. Spelling and grammar mistakes are frequent and make written production incomprehensible.
5. Identifies the characters feelings and points of view in order to connect them to his own experience.
- Excelente: Unguided by questions, easily identifies both obvious and subtle feelings of the characters and their points of view; uses this information to make two or more detailed connections to his own experience.
- Sobresaliente: Unguided by questions, identifies obvious and some subtle feelings of the characters and their points of view; uses this information to make at least one detailed connection to his own experience.
- Bueno: When guided by questions, identifies the most obvious feelings of the characters and their points of view; uses this information to make at least one connection to his own experience.
- Insuficiente: Even when guided by questions, identifies only some of the most obvious feelings of the characters and their points of view; makes a vague and/or irrelevant connection to his own experience.
- Deficiente: Does not identify any meaningful feelings of the character and their points of view; no connections to his own experience.
6. Produces a short text in order to offer alternative solutions.
- Excelente: Creates a short, creative text about an original adventure and offers several detailed alternative solutions to a problem. No spelling or grammar mistakes are present.
- Sobresaliente: Creates a short, creative text about an original adventure and offers at least two alternative solutions to a problem. Seldom spelling and grammar mistakes are present.
- Bueno: Creates a short, creative text about an original adventure and offers at least one alternative solution to a problem. A few spelling and grammar mistakes are still present but do not affect comprehension.
- Insuficiente: Creates a short but unoriginal text about an adventure; no clear presentation of a problem in the story and/or alternatives to solve it. Spelling and grammar mistakes are frequent and affect comprehension.
- Deficiente: Writes a short, unoriginal text and/or irrelevant to adventures. Many spelling and grammar mistakes make written production incomprehensible.
7. Uses a graphic organizer to propose additional strategies to improve his work.
- Excelente: Improves the strategies chart including new strategies based on teacher´s and peer´s feedback. Implements the strategies in an appropriate way.
- Sobresaliente: Improves the strategies chart including new strategies based on teacher´s and peer´s feedback.
- Bueno: Establishes the strategies chart following a step a step process based on the criteria given by the teacher.
- Insuficiente: The strategies chart shows no improvement with new strategies.
- Deficiente: The strategies included in the chart does not correspond to the given task.
8. Revises his productions to adjust his action plan, taking into account strategies proposed during the term.
- Excelente: Establishes an action plan that identifies possible adjustments and includes evidences which are properly justified.
- Sobresaliente: Establishes an action plan that identifies possible adjustments and includes evidences.
- Bueno: Establishes an action plan that includes strategies that correspond with the given task.
- Insuficiente: The action plan does not include adjustments to the strategies.
- Deficiente: The action plan is not consistent with the strategies.