Guideline 8

Learner awareness

Student materials ensure learner awareness (metacognitive strategies) to guide reflection on their own learning.

Guideline 9

Awareness to the ways they can improve their communication over time

Materials guide teachers to engage students in classroom activities that bring awareness to the ways that they can improve their communication (writing, reading, speaking, listening) practices over time.

Specification 8J

Student materials provide opportunities for students to analyze, reflect on, and improve their own writing (meta-awareness) using models, rubrics, and other reflection tools.

Specification 9A

Teacher materials provide guidance on how to draw students’ attention to the ways that language choices relate to the purpose of the text and the intended audience (meta-awareness). This includes explicitly pointing to the linguistic and rhetorical patterns typified in specific genres.