Starter quiz
- Match the skill up to its definition.
- understand⇔make sense of something ✓
- analyse⇔unpick a text, identify patterns ✓
- evaluate⇔critically examine and make judgements ✓
- How can you show that you are critically examining something?
- ask questions ✓
- immediately accept what people tell you
- conduct your own research ✓
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- Which of these is an evaluative statement?
- The text is set in WW2.
- The text successfully evokes sympathy in the reader. ✓
- The word "shrill" creates a nervous effect.
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- Order the skills from least to most complex.
- 1⇔understand
- 2⇔analyse
- 3⇔evaluate
- 4⇔create
- Which word shows that we have formed a positive evaluation of something?
- effectively ✓
- barely
- unsatisfactorily
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- Why is it important to be able to evaluate?
- It shows you are an independent thinker. ✓
- It shows you are a dependent thinker.
- It shows you are creative.
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Exit quiz
- Match the sentence to the skill it demonstrates.
- analyse⇔The verb "wailing" conveys the discomforting sound of the air raid. ✓
- understand⇔The extract events take place on 4th June. ✓
- evaluate⇔Nemirovsky effectively conveys the innocence of the Parisian citizens. ✓
- Which type of words signpost which skill?
- understanding⇔words that express certainty ✓
- analysis⇔action words, tentative language ✓
- evaluation⇔evaluative adverbs/adjectives ✓
- Which word conveys that you are evaluating the writer's craft?
- effectively ✓
- conveys
- demonstrate
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- Which of these is *not* an evaluative adverb?
- effectively
- unsuccessfully
- good ✓
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- How can you examine the quality of someone's argument?
- agree with what they are saying
- build upon what they are saying
- question what they are saying ✓
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- What is important to include in an evaluative paragraph?
- evidence from the text ✓
- language techniques
- structural techniques
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Key learning points
- Evaluation requires you to critically examine something, thus it is more complex than understanding and analysis.
- Using evaluative adverbs and adjectives is good way to signpost your evaluation.
- Evaluative adverbs show you are able to comment on how well a writer does something.
- You should use evidence from the text to support your evaluative comments.
Common misconception
Students may think that they only way to evaluate is to write whether they 'agree' or 'disagree' with something.
In Learning Cycle 2, students learn that they can phrase and signpost their evaluations in a more sophisticated way, directly commenting on the writer's craft with evaluative adverbs.
Keywords
Evaluate - to judge the value or quality of something
Critical - to think seriously about something; considering what is good or bad about it
Signpost - showing how something is going to develop
Evaluative adverb - adverbs that express a judgement about something
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