APP in Literacy

Reading training standards files

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

APP reading standards file: Molly (Year 1 below level 1)

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

• Introduction

• Working with words

• Evidence from independent writing

• Reading and writing about minibeasts

• Evidence of reading from writing

• Reading conference: By the stream

• Assessment summary

• Making a level judgement

• Next steps

APP reading standards file: Joshua (Year 1 low level 1)

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

• Introduction

• Work in role following reading of 'Whatever Next!'

• Observational notes on reading for pleasure

• Individual reading conference: 'How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?'

• Phonic assessments

• Assessment summary

• Making a level judgement

• Next steps

APP reading standards file: Mark (Year 1 low level 1)

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

• Introduction

• Retelling a traditional tale: The Elves and the Shoemaker

• Whole-class reading – Room on the Broom

• Running record: How do I put it on?

• Observational notes: summer term

• Guided reading assessment: Preston Pig

• Assessment summary

• Making a level judgement

• Next steps

APP reading standards file: George (Year 1 secure level 1)

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

• Introduction

• Retelling of a known story

• Phonic knowledge records

• Reading observation notes

• Assessment summary

• Making a level judgement

• Next steps

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

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

• Introduction

• Observational assessment

• Writing from the Traditional tales unit of work

• Reading conference: June

• Reading conference: July

• Assessment summary

• Next steps

• Making a level judgement

APP reading standards file: Daniel (Year 1 secure level 2)

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

• Introduction

• Reading to teacher 'I will not ever never eat a tomato'

• Caterpillars and Butterflies (non-fiction)

• Teacher's notes made on units of work

• Reading a book by a favourite author in the reading corner 'I Want My Dummy' by Tony Ross

• Phonics tracking sheet

• Assessment summary

• Making a level judgement

• Next steps

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

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

• Introduction

• Notes on Nikita's reading of traditional tales

• Work on characters from a traditional tale: profiles of Mother Bear and Goldilocks

• Reading non-fiction

• Guided reading: fiction

• Shared reading: poetry

• Running record: Blue Shoes

• Reading 'Piggybook' by Anthony Browne

• Assessment summary

• Making a level judgement

• Next steps

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

Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) reading 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

• Reading to write an information text on polar bears

• Story structure

• Reading conference

• Assessment summary

• Making a level judgement

• Next steps

APP reading standards file: Charlotte (Year 3, low level 3)

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

• Introduction

• Book review: Hogsel and Gruntel (fiction)

• Guided and individual reading: The Picky Prince (fiction)

• Individual reading questioning: Fish (non-fiction)

• Guided reading and group questioning: Liquid Gold – Water on Tap (non-fiction)

• Home/school reading diary

• Overall assessment summary for Charlotte

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

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

• Introduction

• Guided reading: 'Windrush Child' (poem)

• Gathering evidence for reading in talk and discussion

• Gathering evidence for reading in talk and discussion – 2 and 3

• Overall assessment summary for Jason

APP reading standards file: Trevor (Year 5, secure level 4)

Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) reading standards file for a Year 5 child working at secure level 4 in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

• Introduction

• Guided reading sessions - information, persuasive and narrative texts

• Booklet on rivers following own research

• Guided reading: Zoos Back To Nature?

• Building a picture through teacher observation

• Overall assessment summary for Trevor

APP reading standards file: Chas (Year 6, low level 5)

Training staff can use this exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) reading standards file for a Year 6 child working at low level 5 in making level judgements. This is part of Primary literacy APP.

• Introduction

• Guided reading – journalistic writing

• Oral presentation – comparing two diaries

• Independent writing activity – diary entry in role: Goodnight Mister Tom

• Independent reading – book review: Coraline

• Overall assessment summary for Chas

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