ANNUAL NATIONAL ASSESSMENT 2015

GRADE 2 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE

MEMORANDUM
MARKS: 30

This memorandum consists of 3 pages

1. Give full marks only for answers, unless otherwise stated.

2. Accept any alternative correct solution that may not be included in the memorandum.

DO NOT ALLOCATE HALF MARKS

QUESTION

MARKS
EXPECTED ANSWERS

1.1 C (Accept if correct answer is otherwise indicated) 1

1.2 blocks  (Do not penalise spelling errors) 1
1.3 C (Accept if correct answer is otherwise indicated) 1
1.4 eam  1
1.5 B (Accept if correct answer is otherwise indicated) 1
2. The runaway tractor  1
3. Mr and Mrs Shepherd  1

4. farm  ( Do not penalise spelling errors.) 1

5.
The family had a picnic lunch. 3

Allocate 1
The Shepherd family lived on a farm. 1
mark for
the correct
The oxen pulled the tractor out of the dam. 4 sequence
only
The children looked after chickens and ducks. 2

6. the brakes failed.  1

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 QUESTION

MARKS
EXPECTED ANSWERS

7. the family was not hurt.  1

8.1 Anything relating to the story, or Do not penalise spelling 1

any similar acceptable answer. errors.
8.2 1
9. C (Accept if correct answer is otherwise 1
indicated)
10. Fast/quick ( Do not penalise spelling errors) 1

11.1 C 1
(Accept if correct answer is
11.2 B 1
otherwise indicated)
11.3 A 1
12. D (Accept if correct answer is otherwise indicated) 1

13.1 (Do not 1
Yesterday Mr Shepherd screamed to warn the
penalise
family.
spelling

13.2 errors) 1
Tomorrow the tractor will roll into the dam
14.1   2
Jane bakes fresh bread. (Incorrect if more than 2 punctuation
marks are indicated)
 1
14.2 Where is the tractor? (Incorrect if more than 1 punctuation mark is
indicated)
15. ducks (Do not penalise spelling errors) 1

16. Refer to the rubric on the next page. 5

TOTAL : 30

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 • The final mark for question 16 consists of the following:

Content mark + Grammar/punctuation = 5 marks.

Do not penalise spelling errors.

RUBRIC FOR QUESTION 16

DESCRIPTION
CRITERIA MARKS
No attempt made/Copied instructions/Has written a word,
phrase, or part of a sentence/One or more
incomprehensible sentences/Has written sentences 0
unrelated to the picture.
Content
(Max 3 marks) Has written 1-2 sentences related to the picture. 1
Has written 3-4 sentences related to the picture.
2
Has written 5-8 sentences, related to the picture.
3

10 or more grammatical and/or punctuation errors.

Grammar and 0
punctuation
4–9 grammatical and/or punctuation errors.
1
0–3 grammatical and/or punctuation errors.
(Max 2 marks) 2

Total mark allocation: 5

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