National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement: English 2019 Multimodal Texts and Critical Literacy - Insights for Teachers 3

This report is designed to support the teaching of English in primary and intermediate classrooms. It draws on insights generated from the assessment of the English learning area by the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) in 2019. The report focuses on critical literacy and working with multimodal texts within the making meaning strand of the English learning area.

This report is organised into two parts.

Part 1 briefly introduces NMSSA and the NMSSA assessment of the making meaning strand.
Part 2 presents insights about teaching and learning associated with critical literacy across reading, writing and viewing in English.