LEVEL 5
Reading Text
- Interprets dense and complex texts.
- Makes high-level inferences and
uses
specialized knowledge.
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BENCHMARKS 11 & 12
- Reads a variety of general literacy
texts and specialized or technical
(academic and professional) texts in
own field. (12)
- Can get information, ideas and
opinions on familiar and unfamiliar
abstract and conceptual topics
from propositionally, linguistically,
stylistically and culturally complex
texts in demanding contexts of study
and work. (12)
- Reads critically and with appreciation
for aesthetic qualities of text, register,
stylistic and rhetorical nuance, tone
(e.g., humour, irony, sarcasm), genre
awareness, writer’s bias and points of
view. (12)
- Understands almost all idiomatic and
figurative language and socio-cultural
references. (12)
- Searches through complex displays
of information and uses high-level
inferences, extensive background and
specialized knowledge to locate and
integrate multiple specific pieces of
abstract information across various
multiple complex and dense texts.
(12)
- Interprets, compares and evaluates
both the content and the form of
written text. (12)
- Reads fluently and accurately, adjusting
speed and strategies to task. (12)
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LEVEL 5
- Materials testing managers read
specifications, approximately 25
pages in length, for rarely used testing
procedures. They interpret the
application of the standard to specific
cases, making high-level inferences
as to how the information applies to
specific cases.
- Assistant business managers in labour
unions read adjudication decisions
that have established jurisprudence
for pending grievances which are to
go to adjudication. The legal wording
has specific and complex implications
for specific cases.
- Court clerks read sections of the
criminal code before the court
session begins to stay current on
matters pertaining to a case.
- Small business owners read legal
documents relating to ongoing
business management such as
incorporation, insurance and building
leases.
- Human resources professionals read
legislation, arbitration decisions,
labour board reports and case law in
order to develop an optimal strategy
for labour–management co-operation.
- Regulatory officers read acts,
regulations and by-laws to clarify
legal definitions and regulations
and interpret legislation to ensure
populations are complying with all
levels of the law.
- Heritage interpreters read proposals,
terms of reference and contracts.
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BENCHMARKS 11 & 12
- Identifies and evaluates expressions
of social politeness and cooperation
with the reader and/or third parties
mentioned or implied in the text, as
well as “face-threatening” expressions
and violations of politeness, in
business, professional and academic
texts; complete a related task. (12)
- Follows and evaluates detailed,
extensive and complex written
instructions or instructional texts on
complex tasks (e.g., how to balance a
budget, how to conduct a staff briefing
session); suggests improvements;
revises/edits text. (12)
- Reads and interprets texts related
to arbitration, court proceedings
and rulings, adjudication decisions
in labour union disputes and
grievances or parliamentary/legislative
proceedings. (12)
- Reads related commentaries by
media and political experts. Critically
evaluates the information; outlines
implications for specific cases. (12)
- Reads policy proposals, terms of
reference, mission, vision and mandate
statements, legislative bills, audits. (12)
- Evaluates reports, essays, books about
theories, historical evidence, points of
view by their internal consistency or
external standards; draws conclusions.
(12)
- Edits another’s report, article,
essay, etc. for accuracy, clarity and
consistency, according to required
standards. (12)
- Summarizes and evaluates information
and ideas from multiple complex
texts and graphics obtained in
information searches and based on
various methods of data collection
(e.g., surveys, tests, experiments or
literature search). (12)
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