Children frequently wrote short recounts of events out of school, sometimes using the computer to generate images. Two pieces of writing, separated by a couple of months, show Molly's progress from somewhat random word ordering and incomplete letter strings and clauses, to writing a complete sentence. At the same time, Molly worked on the 'challenge table', where the task was to find words that rhymed with 'hat' and 'log'.
Two word lists mounted on coloured backgrounds, with the child's name at the end of each. The first list contains the words 'bog', 'dog', 'tog', 'log' and 'fog'. The second list, dated as '1.5.2008', contains the words 'hat', 'bat', 'cat', 'sat' and 'pat'.
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Assessment commentary
- Molly draws on phonic knowledge to find rhyming words and makes phonically plausible attempts at simple consonant-vowel-consonant words, such as 'meat' and 'tea'. She also draws on phonics to attempt 'Yorkshire pudding' (AF1 L1 b1).
