Writing assignment – Assessment grid
Assessment Focus
1
Writing 1: Express
what is thought, felt
and imagined.
❏ Expresses what is
thought, felt and
imagined.
Writing 2: Structure
facts, ideas and
opinions.
2
3
4
❏ Expresses what is
thought, felt and
imagined in detail.
❏ Expresses and analyses
what is thought, felt and
imagined.
❏ Effectively expresses and
analyses creatively what is
thought, felt and imagined.
❏ Structures facts,
ideas and opinions.
❏ Presents fact, ideas
and opinions in a
clearly structured
way.
❏ Presents fact, ideas and
opinions in a clearly
structured and coherent
way.
❏ Presents fact, ideas and
opinions in an effectively
structured, coherent and
developed way.
Writing 3: Use a
range of
appropriate and
effective
vocabulary.
❏ Demonstrates use of
appropriate
vocabulary.
❏ Demonstrates use of
appropriate and
effective vocabulary.
❏ Demonstrates use of a
range of appropriate and
effective vocabulary.
❏ Demonstrates a
sophisticated use of
appropriate and imaginative
vocabulary.
Writing 4: Use
register appropriate
to audience and text
type.
❏ Shows a sense of
audience and uses
language and
techniques for the
specific text type.
❏ Shows a clear sense
of audience and use
of varied language
and techniques for
the specific text type.
❏ Shows a strong sense of
audience and wide range
of language and
techniques for the specific
text type.
❏ Shows a strong and
sustained sense of audience
and an effective use of
language and techniques for
the specific text type.
Total: _____ / 16
Assessment Focus
1
2
Grammar 1: Make
accurate use of
spelling, punctuation
and grammar.
❏ Demonstrates
accuracy in use of
grammatical structures,
spelling and
punctuation.
❏ Demonstrates clear
accuracy in use of
grammatical structures,
spelling and
punctuation.
3
❏ Demonstrates a strong
accuracy in use of
grammatical structures,
spelling and punctuation.
4
❏ Demonstrates a high degree of
accuracy in use of grammatical
structures, spelling and
punctuation.
❏ Simple and key topic
❏ Simple and key topic
words are mostly
words are spelled
spelled correctly.
correctly throughout
Attempts more complex
written work. More
spelling though
complex spelling is not
generally incorrect.
always accurate.
❏ Simple, complex and key
topic words are generally
spelled correctly throughout
written work.
❏ Simple, complex and key topic
words are spelled with
precision throughout written
work.
❏ Attempts to use
different punctuation to
define shades of
meaning.
❏ Uses different
punctuation to define
shades of meaning.
❏ Uses a full range of
punctuation to define
shades of meaning.
❏ Effectively and consistently
uses a full range of punctuation
and grammatical structures to
define shades of meaning.
Tenses
❏ Uses appropriate
simple, continuous
tense structures with
control and accuracy.
Compound tenses are
attempted though not
always accurately.
❏ Effectively uses
simple, continuous
tense structures with a
good degree of control
and accuracy
throughout. Compound
tenses are used with
some accuracy.
❏ Effectively uses appropriate
simple, continuous and
compound tense structures
with a good degree of
control and accuracy.
❏ Effectively and consistently
uses appropriate simple,
continuous and compound tense
structures with a high degree of
control and accuracy.
Sentence Type
❏ Uses different
sentence types to
reflect writing context.
❏ Uses a variety of
sentence types to
reflect writing context.
❏ Uses a range of effective
sentence types to reflect
writing context.
❏ Uses a full range of effective
sentence types to reflect writing
context.
Spelling
Punctuation
Total: _____ / 20
Final mark: ____ / 36 = ……………….