Individual Oral (IO) Assessment Creation Guide
Develop your Individual Oral in three connected stages, starting with your IDEAs. Your fields save in this browser; download your work for your teacher and retain the process record.
Use your own classwork and annotations. Open the stage you need; your Global Issue and thesis remain available in the evidence panel.
1 · IDEAs → thesis + Global Issue
Get Ready → Do → Done
Do
- Choose the IDEAs you can support.
- Use Stages of IDEAs to develop their implications.
- Combine them into a thesis and identify its Global Issue.
Done
- Your thesis connects the IDEAs and addresses a specific Global Issue.
Use your own classwork. Start with the IDEAs you want to explain, develop their further stages and implications, then combine them into a thesis. Identify the Global Issue that this argument addresses.
Identify each work and its one selected extract. Use your own classwork and annotations.
2 · Elaboration + evidence
Get Ready → Do → Done
Do
- Develop three 3-Step EAs from each selected extract.
- Use PLANE moments or 3-Step islands for the whole-work TEEAL.
Done
- Specific evidence and effects support your argument.
Use one selected extract for each work and develop three 3-Step EAs from it. For the whole-work TEEAL, you can use one PLANE construction with three key moments, or three mini extracts analysed as 3-Step islands. Deconstruct the details to show how they develop your IDEA and Global Issue.
Non-literary extract
Selected extract · three 3-Step EAs
+ Add evidence
Non-literary whole text
Whole-work TEEAL · PLANE or 3-Step islands
Previous evidence working
Your earlier unassigned notes are kept here. Use them in the relevant work and extract above.
3 · Outline + focused practice
Get Ready → Do → Done
Do
- Organise the outline; check balance and timing.
Done
- An outline and a record of focused improvement.
Structure your entire IO with timings.
Your official 10 bullet points for the IO.
- Maximum 10 prompts for the full IO; 6 prompts for the two-extract-only half-IO practice.
- 15 words or symbols per bullet maximum. A symbol replacing a word (for example
&,→,Δor an emoji) counts as one word. No portmanteaus or hidden scripts. - Keywords, brief quotations, authorial choices and IDEA/GI connections only. No full sentences, extended prose or memorised scripts.
- Use these prompts with your unannotated extracts, which you may bring into the IO room.
- Your teacher may give feedback on the bullet-point outline once only. Plan carefully before requesting that feedback.
Not suitable: The author uses a metaphor to show that the refugee feels disconnected from home.
What you may bring: extract-format reminders
- Film: 3–4 screenshots and dialogue transcript from approximately 15–45 seconds.
- Poem: full poem if short; approximately 20 lines if longer.
- Literary extract: at most 40 lines; normally shorter, proportionate to the non-literary extract.
- Photography/artwork: one work only.
- Print unannotated extracts and your permitted 10-point outline.
The official form for your IO.
- Maximum 10 prompts for the full IO; 6 prompts for the two-extract-only half-IO practice.
- 15 words or symbols per bullet maximum. A symbol replacing a word (for example
&,→,Δor an emoji) counts as one word. No portmanteaus or hidden scripts. - Keywords, brief quotations, authorial choices and IDEA/GI connections only. No full sentences, extended prose or memorised scripts.
- Use these prompts with your unannotated extracts, which you may bring into the IO room.
- Your teacher may give feedback on the bullet-point outline once only. Plan carefully before requesting that feedback.
Not suitable: The author uses a metaphor to show that the refugee feels disconnected from home.
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