Assessment focuses and progression in speaking and listening
QCA draft assessment focuses (AFs) for speaking and listening
QCA are in the process of developing an equivalent set of assessment focuses for speaking and listening and on piloting their use in extending APP approaches to speaking and listening. The SNS will make this available to schools as soon as it is ready. In the meantime, QCA has agreed to make the draft assessment focuses available here. Click here for a table showing some of the links between the AFs and their relationship to the areas of focus in the Speaking and Listening improvement matrix.
Speaking and Listening improvement matrix
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Draft assessment focuses for Speaking and Listening
- Talk in purposeful and imaginative ways to explore ideas and feelings, using non-verbal features for clarity and effect.
- Listen and respond to others, identifying main ideas, implicit meanings and viewpoints, and how these are presented.
- Adapt and vary structures and vocabulary according to purpose, listeners and what is spoken about, selecting and using the features of spoken standard English effectively.
- Make a range of contributions when working in groups, shaping meanings through suggestions, comments and questions and drawing ideas together.
- Create and sustain different roles, adapting techniques in a range of dramatic activities to explore texts, ideas and issues.
- Identify varieties and uses of spoken language, comment on their meaning and impact and draw on these in talking to others.
Activity
With a colleague, use these draft AFs and the Speaking and Listening improvement matrix to help you review your scheme of work and medium term planning for a specific year group. Judge how far it currently covers the range of teaching objectives in the framework and provides a broad range of opportunities to track pupils' progress in speaking and listening. Identify any significant gaps in either teaching or assessment of speaking and listening to discuss further with colleagues. Use the speaking and listening sections of the Key Objectives Banks for Years 7, 8 and 9 to help you consider how to strengthen any areas identified.
Key objectives bank: Year 7 (455 KB)