Sample Assessment for Viewing a Visual Text: Form One

Student's Name: ___________________________________

Text: _____________________________________________

Date: ______________
 

Criteria

__ Prepare for viewing by setting a purpose and predicting what might be learned from the visual text

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__ Attend and note key ideas and elements presented by the visual text including:

  • identify main idea, events, or focus of visual text
  • identify key supporting details in visual text

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__ Respond personally and critically to the visual text including:

  • identify favourite part or visual elements and explain why
  • identify what was most interesting and what was learned or felt about text
  • consider how message is conveyed (e.g., size and placement of images) and what has been portrayed
  • judge the reliability, truth, or value of the visual text

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Sample Assessment for Viewing a Visual Text: Form Two

Student's Name: ___________________________________

Text: _____________________________________________

Date: ______________
 

Criteria

__ Prepare for viewing by setting a purpose and predicting what might be seen

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__ Actively view by:

  • selecting relevant information
  • asking questions, inferring, confirming or rejecting predictions and conclusions
  • using visual cues to construct meaning and identify key ideas

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__ Respond personally and critically by:

  • thinking, talking, and writing about what was viewed
  • appraising visual texts for clarity and impact
  • drawing on visual texts to explain personal perspectives and other ideas

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Additional Observations and Comments