English literacy framework: Project asTTle

Deeper features
Writing Reading
Poetic Transactional  
Narrate Recount Instruct Describe Explain Persuade Find information Knowledge Understanding Connections Inference
  • Audience awareness & purpose

  • Content inclusion

  • Coherence: sequencing & linking

  • Language resources for achieving the purpose

  • Find, select, & retrieve
  • Rules of language
  • Use understandings & information gained from texts
  • Make links between verbal & visual information
  • Make inferences from text
  • Skim or scan
  • Semantic, syntactic, visual & grapho-phonic cues
  • Consistently read for meaning
  • Compare similarities & differences within & between texts
  • Evaluate & interpret features & purposes of text and author's intent
 
  • Poetic techniques
  • Identify main ideas in texts
  • Use prior cultural knowledge
  • Predict possible outcomes
 
  • Publishing conventions
 
  • Make cohesive links between aspects of text
  • Infer sequence of events
 
  • Vocabulary
     

Surface features
  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Spelling

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