LEVELS 9-10 WC

Level 9

Conditions: Documents include various complex elements, and may address unfamiliar or abstract topics. Students understand the main idea in complex documents.

More specifically, they can:

  • recount the author’s arguments;
  • recognize the function of linking words in a text;
  • identify the main idea and pinpoint some details.

Level 10

Conditions: Documents include various complex elements, and address abstract topics. Students understand the main idea, the tone and explanations in complex documents.

More specifically, they can:

  • recognize adjectives, adverbs and other words that convey tone;
  • recognize subtext;
  • recognize the links of cause, intention, time and consequence, expressed by the most common subordinating words.