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Year 5 Assessing Primary Writing examples
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Earlier this week we released the results of our year 5 judging window. As well as getting information about how their school has performed, subscribers also get access to a set of anchor scripts (these will be available in subscribers’ accounts shortly). These are scripts that are selected from across the national range and exemplify the different standards. Schools can use these scripts in their own internal judging to help standardise their results, and they can also print them off and use them for CPD or in lessons.
For this window, pupils wrote a magazine article in response to a text prompt that we provided. This was different from last year, when schools set the task themselves. The text prompt was a 400 word article about pets, with short sections describing the different requirements for having a cat, dog or giant African land snail as a pet. We will make the text available for download shortly. Teachers could read the text out loud to their pupils, and the question was as follows.
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!
Our aim in devising this task was to come up with something that had a ‘low floor and a high ceiling’. We wanted every pupil to be able to write something, without placing any constraints or limitations on pupils’ responses.
In the previous year 3 window, we used an image prompt, so this year 5 task was our first text prompt. We were concerned that the quite lengthy text prompt might make it difficult for some pupils to access the task, but this proved unfounded. Over 20,000 pupils were able to write something in response to this prompt. The subject matter, pets, clearly helped here. The enthusiasm and knowledge children have for pets is really quite something! The text prompt was designed to make sure that even if pupils didn’t know much about pets, they could use some of the information in the prompt in their own response. However, in practice, plenty of pupils were able to include lots of their own information about pets. Many of them included some of the common stereotypes about cats and dogs — that cats are independent whereas dogs need more work; that puppies are very energetic and playful; that cats like to eat fish so you shouldn’t keep pet fish near them! Some of the responses felt like a bit of a brain dump — ‘and another thing about cats is…’.
But others managed to take the knowledge and structure it a bit more coherently.
As ever, control of sentence structure made a big difference. Sentences like this one, for example, provided detail and nuance.
Control of the overall structure was important too. One thing people often ask about comparative judgement is if pieces with strong beginnings but weaker endings are favoured because people don’t read to the end. I don’t think that is the case: going through the results, there are plenty of pieces with strong endings that fade away — and they don’t do as well as the more consistent pieces. Take a look at the start and end of this piece: it starts very powerfully.
But by the end it has become quite bitty and repetitive.
Overall, it scores highly — but not as highly as this piece which is shorter but more consistent and tightly structured.
We will repeat the reminder from our last window: because the conditions have changed from last year to this, it does mean that we cannot directly compare last year’s results to this year’s. Further, because the work has been completed in independent conditions, it is not directly comparable with work completed in more structured conditions. You may find that scripts that don’t ‘look’ as high-quality as you are used to are getting high scores but please remember that pupils have responded in independent conditions to the stimulus so some errors are to be expected! To reassure people on this point, in a previous blog we shared some work from national projects we have run in year 7 and year 10. The work from these projects was also completed in independent conditions.
If you read those pieces, you will see that there are also errors in the work completed in these year groups — whenever children, and indeed adults, write in independent conditions some errors are to be expected!
With that in mind, here are three more extracts from scripts from this year 5 window from different parts of the range.
More to follow
We have a webinar on Wednesday 12th December at 4pm where we will discuss the results in this blog in more detail. If you have questions about anything here, we really recommend signing up for that webinar, or watching it afterwards.
This blog has presented some of the year 5 Assessing Primary Writing writing, and the year 3 Assessing Primary Writing window was completed last month, but we have more windows coming up next term. The year 1 and year 4 windows take place just after Christmas, and year 2 & year 6 in February. If you’d like to sign up for them, you can do so here .
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Y5 Writing Target Sheet with Assessment Guidance

This resource has two elements in which Y5 has been separated from the Y5/Y6 Programme of Study to provide an understanding of the requirements at Y5.
1. A Target Sheet designed to be pasted into children’s books which lists the objectives from the Year 5 Writing Curriculum with descriptors for WTS/EXS/and GDS against each objective.It is designed to be used by the teacher when making judgements against each objective.
2. Part 2 of the resource provides comprehensive assessment guidance against each objective to assist teachers in making these judgements.
The system works with many of the tracking systems currently being used in schools - as it is based on the national curriculum programme of study requirements for each year group and is directly linked to the end of Key Stage 2 requirements.
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A teacher isn't the only one who can assess a writing sample. Students can assess their own writing by working in pairs or small groups. Small groups of students can meet and conference about one piece or each student can bring a piece to exchange and have reviewed.
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Developed by Education Northwest, the 6 + 1 Trait® Writing Model of Instruction and Assessment is based on common characteristics of good writing. The model uses common language and scoring guides to identify what "good" writing looks like. The 6+1 traits within the model are: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation. For each trait, there's a scale with descriptors for scoring. Much more information about 6+1 Trait® Writing can be found within Education Northwest's site, including information about the Beginning Writer's continuum (BWC) which can be used with K-2 students. 6+1 Trait® Writing >
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Y5 Writing Assessment I Can Statements with Worked Examples - These handy, child-friendly checklists based on the Twinkl Y5 Writing Checklist should help pupils to see their progress within writing using worked examples for each statement. Could also be useful for parents of Y5 children to familiarize themselves with the terminology and expected standards within Y5 writing.
Year 5 Writing Assessment Grid IMPORTANT : Please note that grammatical features should only be ticked when they add to the composition of a piece of writing, e.g. when they are used to add detail for the reader and are not just added because they are on a tick list. Date and genre of work: Working towards the expected standard in Y5
Scaled score 643, Y5 GDS, Writing age 11y6m. Scaled score 549, Y5 EXS, Writing age 10y4m. Scaled score 459, Y5 WTS, Writing age 6y5m ... No More Marking simplifies assessment for schools through its Comparative Judgement Engine. The blog presents findings from our projects and our more general research.
Y5 Writing Target Sheet with Assessment Guidance. £10.00. This resource has two elements in which Y5 has been separated from the Y5/Y6 Programme of Study to provide an understanding of the requirements at Y5. 1. A Target Sheet designed to be pasted into children's books which lists the objectives from the Year 5 Writing Curriculum with ...
Writing Assessment Moderation Sheet Year 5 | Teaching Resources Writing Assessment Moderation Sheet Year 5 Subject: English Age range: 7-11 Resource type: Assessment and revision 4 reviews File previews pdf, 44.12 KB I have designed these sheet to aid moderation of writing across the school.
Year 5 Writing Assessment Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation Convert nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes - ate, -ise, -ify Understand verb prefixes dis-, de-, mis-, over-, re- Use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or an omitted relative pronoun Indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs -
There are several ways to assess writing. The most common method is to use some sort of rubric. Items on the rubric range from state-mandated writing standards to individual items specific to an assignment. Other forms of writing assessment use checklists or rating scales. A teacher isn't the only one who can assess a writing sample.
Writing assessment grids developed by AP Literacy, for use with Nursery, Reception, and Years 1-6. Pre-Key Stage 1 Writing Assessment Grid. Pre-Key Stage 2 Writing Assessment Grid. Nursery Writing Assessment Grid. Reception Writing Assessment Grid. Y1 Writing Assessment Grid (updated 13/02/23)
In some writing, use punctuation increasingly effectively to enhance meaning and avoid ambiguity (e.g. semi-colons, dashes, colons, hyphens). Spell most words from the Y3/4 list correctly, plus some from the Y5/6 list. Spell correctly many words from the Y5/6 spelling list and use a dictionary to check the spelling of uncommon or more ambitious
Year 5 Writing Assessment Grid Date and genre of work: Working towards the expected standard in Y5 The pupil can: write for a range of purposes describe settings and characters including expanded noun phrases and adverbials use co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions use adverbs to express time ...
Newspaper report, diary entry, explanation text: independent writing assessment. It is designed for Year 5 to meet the objectives of the 2014 National Curriculum. Recently Viewed and Downloaded › Recently Viewed › ... Space: Tim Peake Y5 Writing Assessment. Writing Year Five Space: Tim Peake. Free Account Includes:
Y5 Writing Assessment I Can Statements with Worked Examples - These handy, child-friendly checklists based on the Twinkl Y5 Writing Checklist should help pupils to see their progress within writing using worked examples for each statement.
• choose a writing style that matches purpose: developing character setting and plot, use of presentation and devices for non-fiction, formal or non-formal style • using a range of devices to build cohesion (e.g. conjunctions, adverbials of time and place, pronouns)
Year 5 Reading, Writing, Maths Assessment Sheets (new curriculum) The new curriculum broken down into specific objectives and set our on either group, class or individual sheets. Words docs so can be adapted to suit. £5.50 Bundle Whole School Writing Assessment Grids New curriculum broken down into objectives per year group.
Year 5 Writing Assessment Checklist (editable) Downloads are for members of Grammarsaurus only. Grammarsaurus Gold Subscription - £44.95/year INC VAT Description This writing assessment checklist has been designed by experienced writing moderators to align to the National Curriculum. Editable versions included.
Wolf persuasive formal letter, tourist discussion; thief descriptive dialogue,: independent writing assessment. It is designed for Year 5 to meet the objectives of the 2014 National Curriculum. Recently Viewed and Downloaded › ... Firebird Y5 Writing Assessment. Writing Year Five Traditional Tales: Firebird. Free Account Includes:
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Wartime lunches; Blitz recount; wartime story opening: independent writing assessment. It is designed for Year 5 to meet the objectives of the 2014 National Curriculum. As the purpose of this resource is to educate on challenging events in history, it necessarily contains potentially sensitive and/or upsetting topics that may emotionally impact on the children and students with whom it is used ...
Book Now Cost: Free to members of BEST Trust otherwise £90 Target Group: Y5 Teachers and English leads in UKS2 Course Leader: Dawn Robertson Course Objectives: Dawn Robertson, English Consultant, will demonstrate how to assess pupils' writing accurately with reference to age-related expectation and greater depth statements. Teachers will be assisted with moderating their own …
Use these Yr 5 Differentiated Writing Mats to help children recap learning objectives and brush up on language skills. This SPaG Adverbials for Cohesion Word Mat will help children make their writing flow. Expand the vocabulary of your class and enrich their fiction writing with this handy Fiction Description Word Mat