Writing moderation

This term for one of our School assessments our School did e-asTTle writing assessments.
During our  Kia Manawanui team meeting we had a chance to moderate writing samples from each of our class-Below, At and Above for years 4s, 5s, 6 and 7s.

When we were moderating our writing samples we used the writing rubric to help us with finding out where the children were at in their writing. For example: looking at spelling and the rubric and the child's piece of writing and seeing if they are at R1,R2,R3,R4,R5 or R6.





We also used the Narrative writing examples to help us with moderating our writing samples. These writing samples gave us an ideas of where the children's writing should be at and what it should look like. Having another teacher moderate my classes writing samples helped because they write examples of what they saw in the writing as well as what was missing. So I really found this very helpful in my teaching.

I found it really helpful when we came together as a syndicate and moderated samples together so we could see what other children's work was like in the other class and compare our results.  It was very useful. Im looking forward to when our School collates together a set of exemplars of students writing from years 1-8 in the different ranges so we can use then in our moderation as well as use then as examples of good writing in our classroom teaching.

Writing is one of my passions, so being able to look at different strategies and reflect on how I can help the children accelerate in their writing is what I have passion for as I believe writing plays a significant role in life and being able to give the students the tools to be able to develop their writing is a really good life skills which will help them in the future.