WRITING Assessment - Kindergarten - Term1 2010

Writing Task Name: Year: Kinder Date:

Level B 1 Level B 2 Level B 3 Communication B1.5.1 Uses drawings to relate B2.5.1 Contributes ideas, words B3.5.1Initiate writing for own events, experiences and stories or sentences to a class or group purposes(writing notes or labels, Outcomes B1.5.2 Talk about own writing shared story choosing own topics for writing). B1.5 (p. 30 ESL Scales) or drawing B2.5.7 Writes or copies well B3.5.2 Write simply about B2.5 (p. 38 ESL Scales) B1.5.4 Copy letters or words or known words or short texts topics of personal significance B3.5 (p. 46 ESL Scales) use symbols to communicate a (“This my house”) B3.5.4 Write sentences that message B2.5.8 Complete simple make a coherent statement repetitive modelled sentences B3.5.6 Incorporate into own (“I come from”) writing or drawing vocabulary, B2.5.11 Re reads own writing modelled writing or ideas from texts read in class Language and Cultural B1.6.1Show awareness that B2.6.2 Use the terms writing B3.6.1 Identify communicative Understanding writing can be read, ask for and drawing appropriately purpose of text (recounting an something to be written B2.6.4 Identify common letters experience, giving information, Outcomes B1.6.2 Show awareness of the in different words consistently describing an event) B1.6 (p. 30 ESL Scales) difference between picture and (point to all the t’s in a B2.6 (p. 38 ESL Scales) print or writing (by asking for sentence) B3.6 (p. 46 ESL Scales) labels for drawings) B2.6.5 Copy a short text B1.6.3 Attribute meaning to correctly copied symbols or words B1.6.4 Draw pictures that reveal basic story form( a beginning, a sequence, an ending

Language Structures and B1.7.1 Copy text, writing from B2.7.6 Consistently write the B3.7.1 Write sentences based Features left to right across the page same letters and numbers on simple repetitive modelled B1.7.2 Copy text, writing from appropriately in context patterns ( ‘I play’…’I go to Outcomes top to the bottom of the page B2.7.8 Mix upper and lower linch…’, ‘I go to home…’) B1.7 (p. 31 ESL Scales) B1.7.4 Write identifiable letters case letters in writing (BaBy, B3.7.3 Write ‘run-on B2.7 (p. 39 ESL Scales) or approximations of letters LooK) sentences’(‘at school we play B3.7 (p. 47 ESL Scales) B1.7.5 Leave spaces between and at school we read and at groups of letters or symbols school..’) B3.7.6 Use common language patterns learnt in class (‘I can’, ‘he can’) B3.7.9 Use words commonly related to a topic (holiday, stay home, play) B3.7.11 Use basic punctuation to separate ideas (capitals to start a sentence, full stop to end a sentence) Strategies B1.8.1Demonstrate writing-like B2.8.1 Use illustrations to B3.8.2 Repeat the same behaviour (write or draw when provide more detail about own beginning patterns to generate Outcomes others write or draw) writing amonts of text ( I like…I like; At B1.8 (p. 31 ESL Scales) B1.8.6 Draw pictures to B2.8.2 Use words copied from spring I … In spring I … Iam B2.8 (p. 39 ESL Scales) communicate ideas various sources in writing going…going) B3.8 (p. 47 ESL Scales) B1.8.7 Copy words, labels, (labels, signs, instructions) B3.8.5 Rely on sound or visual sentences, signs, lists or B2.8.6 Practise writing words or features of words to attempt pictures from the immediate sentences own spelling (vae for very, ah environment for are, purpl for purple B3.8.7 Develop a small bank of known words to use in writing B3.8.9 Read own writing aloud to check for meaning and clarity B3.8.10 Use simple resources to find words needed for own writing and to check spelling (dictionaries, own word lists, labels, signs, charts, environmental print)

Comments: Levels for Communication: Language and cultural understanding: Overall level for this task: ______Language structures and features: Strategies:

Grace Brunetta / Donna McFadzean 28/2/10