Assessing Primary Writing 19–20 Year 3 exemplars
Last week we released the results of our year 3 judging window. For this window, pupils wrote a story in response to an image prompt.
Pupils completed the task in controlled conditions to ensure the writing was independent. We have explained the reason for the change to a task prompt in a previous blog: put simply, our schools wanted us to set a specific task as it is harder to judge when everyone is doing something different!
Here are three samples from across the attainment range which show some of the variety of responses.
As well as providing a scaled score and a WTS/EXS/GDS indicator, we provide a writing age too. In the table below we’ve typed up the first lines of scripts at different writing ages to give you a taste of how this works.
Previously, we’ve noted that sentence structure and vocabulary seem to be two of the most decisive factors in separating the scripts. You can really see the impact of sentence structure in the first lines above. They all begin with quite similar word choices, but the more sophisticated and secure sentence structures make a big difference.
What’s next
Subscribers will shortly receive their reports and a separate pdf with the 15 anchor scripts too. These anchors will shortly be available in subscribers’ accounts too. You can still take part in Assessing Primary Writing for this year by signing up here. The next assessment windows are Years 1 & 4 straight after Christmas, and Years 2 & 6 before Easter.
