Raising Grades from C to D

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Raising Grades from C to D
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Key Features of D gradesCoursework

• Understanding of
• Writers attitudes and meaning
• Narrative structure
• Language used

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Key Features of D gradesExamination

• Awareness of attitudes/feelings
• Range of comment with textual support and cross
  reference
• Effects achieved by writer

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Key Features of C gradeCoursework

• Insight into
• Implications and relevance of text
• Style, structure and character
• language

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Key Features of C gradeExamination

• Understanding of feelings, attitudes, ideas
• Range of extended supported comments with some
  cross reference
• Awareness of writers techniques and purposes

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Moving from D to CCoursework

• Insight not understanding
• Critical as well as personal response
• Implications and relevance of text shown
• Style and use of language

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Moving from D to CExamination

• Understanding not awareness
• Extended supported comment
• Awareness of techniques that achieve effects

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Teaching Priorities to Raise Attainment

• Teach
• Perceptiveness implication, inference, irony
  tone not meaning
• Contextual approach to comment
• Identification of varying ways in which language
  is used in single text
• Shift of focus from text to maker of text (FAP)