APP writing standards files

Attachments

• Writing training standards files

  Training staff can use these four versions of the Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards files in making level judgements of children working at different levels. These are part of Primary literacy APP.

• APP writing standards file: Joshua (Year 1 low level 1)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 1 child working at low level 1 in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • Captions for photographs
  • What happened at the weekend
  • Speech bubble related to the story Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy
  • Ice cream poster with labels
  • Sequencing pictures
  • Assessment summary
  • Making a level judgement
  • Next steps

• APP writing standards file: Mark (Year 1 low level 1)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 1 child working at low level 1 in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • Story writing: middle and ending
  • Illustrated instructions: How to make a potion
  • Recount of family outing
  • Story ending: Witch on a Broom
  • Non-fiction writing: about dinosaurs
  • Narrative writing: fantasy story
  • Assessment summary
  • Making a level judgement
  • Next steps

• APP writing standards file: Joe (Year 1 secure level 1)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 1 child working at secure level 1 in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • Story: Once Upon a Time There Was a Flower
  • Diary: plant growth
  • Making a spider
  • Information page on spiders
  • Assessment summary
  • Making a level judgement
  • Next steps

• APP writing standards file: Tahmid (Year 1 high level 1)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 1 child working at high level 1, with English as an additional language (EAL), in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • Recount writing: The fireman visit
  • Using ICT to write captions
  • Story writing: The Boy That Made Fire
  • Favourite moment
  • Assessment summary
  • Making a level judgement
  • Next steps

• APP writing standards file: Julia (Year 1 low level 2)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 1 child working at low level 2, in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • Notes, jottings and more extended independent writing: end of spring term
  • Diary
  • Character sketch
  • Story ending and storyboard
  • Notes from a unit of work on writing recounts: summer term
  • Narrative writing: The Amazing Pebble – end of summer term
  • Assessment summary
  • Next steps

• APP writing standards file: Kaycee (Year 2 low level 2)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 2 child working at low level 2, in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • Narrative writing: Twits Tricks
  • Narrative writing: Why the Dog Has Four Legs
  • Non-narrative writing: based on an information text
  • Assessment summary
  • Making a level judgement
  • Next steps

• APP writing standards file: Stephanie (Year 4, low level 2)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 4 child working at low level 2, in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • Persuasive letter
  • Newspaper report
  • Letter of complaint
  • Opening paragraph of a story
  • Overall assessment summary for Stephanie

• APP writing standards file: Nikita (Year 1 secure level 2)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 1 child working at secure level 2, in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • Narrative writing: Rainbow Fish and His Sister
  • Recount: School trip to London Zoo
  • Poem: Song of the Seaside
  • Story ending: Witch on a Broom
  • Fantasy story: The Fruit Bowl
  • Assessment summary
  • Making a level judgement
  • Next steps

• APP writing standards file: Daniel (Year 1, high level 2)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 1 child working at high level 2, in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • Recounting a football match
  • Story writing: The Three Bears
  • Writing about an archaeological dig and devising a museum guide
  • Assessment summary
  • Making a level judgement
  • Next steps

• APP writing standards file: James (Year 1 high level 2)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 1 child working at high level 2, in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • Instructional writing: How to make a cheese sandwich
  • Writing a recount based on 'Tobias and the Angel'
  • Narrative writing: A Walk in the Woods
  • Visit to Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA)
  • My house
  • Assessment summary
  • Making a level judgement
  • Next steps

• APP writing standards file: Julia (Year 2 secure level 3)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 2 child working at secure level 3, with English as an additional language (EAL), in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • Evolving ideas and planning
  • Narrative writing: The Magic Rock
  • Persuasive writing: advertisement for Jacob's coat
  • Assessment summary
  • Making a level judgement
  • Next steps

• APP writing standards file: Jason (Year 5, secure level 3)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 5 child working at secure level 3, in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • A letter related to events in a legend
  • Explanatory and informative writing
  • A persuasive letter to a character from a famous duo
  • A fable – independent narrative writing
  • Overall assessment summary for Jason

• APP writing standards file: Kylie (Year 4, low level 4)

  Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file for a Year 4 child working at low level 4, in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

  • Introduction
  • A front page news report
  • Describing settings: Dungeon
  • How to make a Christmas bauble
  • An advertisement: 'Googles 4 Fish'
  • Story opening: Homer and the Mobile
  • Work on poetry
  • Overall assessment summary for Kylie

• APP writing standards file: Mikki (Year 5, secure level 4)

  Exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file showing the assessment for a Year 5 child working at secure level 4. Illustrated examples of the child's work and the teacher's assessment commentary are included.

  • Introduction
  • Writing from character's viewpoint based on Fair's Fair
  • Play script based on everyday incident
  • Mythical story
  • Presentation on pollution in local environment
  • Overall assessment summary for Mikki

• APP writing standards file: Harry (Year 6, low level 5)

  Exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file showing the assessment for a Year 6 child working at low level 5. Illustrated examples of the child's work and the teacher's assessment commentary are included.

  • Introduction
  • Should zoos be allowed? – two sides of the argument
  • Letter home – cross-curricular writing explaining filtration
  • Newspaper report about a robbery
  • Narrative writing – story written in stages
  • Overall assessment summary for Harry

• APP writing standards file: Farida (Year 6, secure level 5)

  Exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) writing standards file showing the assessment for a Year 6 child working at secure level 5. Illustrated examples of the child's work and the teacher's assessment commentary are included.

  • Introduction
  • Too much TV causing weighty children – discursive article/report
  • How the ear works – explanatory/informative writing
  • Magazine article – discursive response to Macbeth
  • Ghost story – narrative writing
  • The Dancing Flame – poem
  • Overall assessment summary for Farida