ICAS English:

Skill Areas

Students are required to locate, identify, explain, interpret, infer, and analyse information in and about texts. The skill areas assessed are:

• Text comprehension
• Writer’s craft
• Syntax
• Vocabulary

Content

ICAS English assesses reading and language skills in a range of contexts. The following aspects of texts are assessed and reported:

• Text comprehension: reading for meaning in literary and factual texts
• Writer’s craft: selecting particular text types, vocabulary, and techniques
• Syntax
• Vocabulary

The questions require students to locate, identify, sequence, explain, interpret, analyse, and infer information in and about texts.

Students read a variety of texts that narrate, describe, explain, argue, persuade, and review. These include extracts from picture books, novels, poems, play scripts, transcripts of interviews, letters, diary entries, advertisements, web pages, feature articles, and opinion pieces. These texts cover a range of topics and may include tables, diagrams, maps, and other visual information.