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Title

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9781783396887 Writing Assessment Tasks Complete Pack

£500

9781783396733 Writing Assessment Tasks Year 2 Pack

£125

9781783396740 Writing Assessment Tasks Year 3 Pack

£125

9781783396757 Writing Assessment Tasks Year 4 Pack

£125

9781783396764 Writing Assessment Tasks Year 5 Pack

£125

9781783396771 Writing Assessment Tasks Year 6 Pack

£125

Assess and moderate writing

with confidence

Available for Years 2 to 6, these half-termly writing tasks help teachers to check

whether children are working at the expected standard throughout the year.

•

Engaging tasks enable children to demonstrate independent writing skills

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Marking support helps teachers to reliably assess writing against

age-related expectations

•

Real pupil exemplars give teachers the

confidence to know what ‘meeting

the expected standard’looks like

READING AND ENGLISH

www.risingstars-uk.com/writingtasks

Writing

Tasks

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Name:

Class:

Date:

Year 4

Summer term: Task6A – Shortwriting task:Dictation

Task 6A

Short writing task: Dictation

• Write as neatly and as clearly as you can.

• You will need to think about correct spelling and punctuation, and decide

when to start a new line.

• If you go wrong, cross out your mistake with one line and write your

correction next to or above your mistake.

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Year 4

Summer term: Task 6C – Longwriting task:Composition Story

Task 6C

Long writing task: Composition

Story

Imagine you are a journalist with a local newspaper. You have been sent to find

out about the time machine built by Miss Smith’s class.

Your task is to write a newspaper article about the time machine.

Think about:

• the answers to the questions

What? Where? When? Who? Why?

and

How?

• who you talk to, what questions you ask them, and what they say

• the headline you will give your article

• how you will finish the article.

Write your plan on the separate planning sheet provided by the teacher. Use

whatever sort of planning model you know works best for you. Remember to

write your plan in note form.

Spend five or ten minutes planning the newspaper article. Your teacher

will tell you when five minutes and then ten minutes have passed.

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Year 4

Summer term: Task 6A example 3

Dictation mark scheme

Dimension:

Writing – transcription

Sub-dimension:

Transcription

Progression

statement

Working towards

expectations

Meeting expectations

Exceeding

expectations

Writes from

memory simple

sentences, dictated

by the teacher, that

include words and

punctuation taught

so far

With support, pupil

can remember and

write a dictated

sentence applying

age-expected newly

taught spelling

patterns and

punctuationwith

some accuracy.

Pupil can usually remember

andwrite a dictated

sentence accurately applying

newly taught spelling

patterns and punctuation

accuracy: e.g.

Itwashard to

accept that themagician,who

had been struck down by a

mysterious illness,was going

to disappoint the children's

party

Pupil can

consistently

and confidently

remember andwrite

a dictated sentence

applying newly

taught spelling

and punctuation

accurately.

10 marks

/3–5marks

/6–9marks

/10marks

Dictation example 3

Commentary

Correctly spelledwords: 33

Correctly placed punctuationmarks: 15

New lines started correctly: 2

Total number of correct elements: 50

Marks awarded: 7

Dictation_Example 3.indd 1

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Writing Assessment Tasks

Year 4 sample

Using consistent writing

tasks can help to support

effective assessment and

moderation.

Shareen Mayers, Primary English

and Assessment Consultant

Pupil exemplars

with guidance on the

expected standard

included