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| Criteria | A (Excellent) | B (Good) | C (Satisfactory) | D (Needs Improvement) | E (Incomplete) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interacting with Others and Creating Texts | Consistently interacts with others and effectively creates spoken and/or multimodal texts. | Interacts with others and creates spoken and/or multimodal texts with some effectiveness. | Attempts to interact with others and create spoken and/or multimodal texts. | Struggles to interact with others and create spoken and/or multimodal texts. | Does not interact with others or create spoken and/or multimodal texts. |
| Comprehension of Informative Texts | Demonstrates thorough understanding of texts created to inform the audience. | Shows good understanding of texts created to inform the audience. | Displays basic understanding of texts created to inform the audience. | Shows limited understanding of texts created to inform the audience. | Does not demonstrate understanding of texts created to inform the audience. |
| Organizing Ideas | Effectively adopts text structures to organize, develop, and link ideas. | Adopts text structures to organize, develop, and link ideas with some effectiveness. | Attempts to adopt text structures to organize, develop, and link ideas. | Struggles to adopt text structures to organize, develop, and link ideas. | Does not adopt text structures to organize, develop, and link ideas. |
| Historical Inquiry | Develops insightful questions about the past and effectively locates and identifies primary and secondary sources as evidence. | Develops questions about the past and locates and identifies primary and secondary sources as evidence. | Develops basic questions about the past and attempts to locate and identify primary and secondary sources as evidence. | Struggles to develop questions about the past and locate/identify primary and secondary sources. | Does not develop questions about the past or locate/identify primary and secondary sources. |
| Cultural Understanding | Thoroughly describes the nature of Australian society, its cultural and religious diversity, and identifies the values that support cohesion. | Describes the nature of Australian society, its cultural and religious diversity, and identifies the values that support cohesion. | Describes some aspects of Australian society, its cultural and religious diversity, and identifies some values that support cohesion. | Attempts to describe Australian society, its cultural and religious diversity, and identify values that support cohesion. | Does not describe Australian society, its cultural and religious diversity, or identify values that support cohesion. |
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