This post is an attachment to issue 46 of the IH Journal: https://ihworld.com/ih-journal/issues/issue-46/writing-with-young-learners/. Below is the lesson plan I discussed at the 2019 IH Torun Teacher Training day along with two examples of students writing and an explanation of how I marked it.
Some background about the students. Student 1 is nine years old, she enjoys using English and likes to experiment with vocabulary . Student 2 is 7 years old and isn’t a confident writer. She is very communicative and loves to talk but due simply to her age, her writing isn’t as strong as some of the students in her class.
As far as marking is concerned, student 1, received a 5 for content and a 5 for accuracy. Although her writing was not perfect, she had used the intended grammar (almost 100%) correctly, her spelling was correct, and she had attempted to use more difficult grammar structures that we hadn’t taught in class. Student 2 received a 5 for content because she had included all of the language I wanted her to and she received a 3 for accuracy. She made expected mistakes with the grammar but used it to a consistent level that I was happy with and her prepositions were correct. She also made quite a few expected spelling mistakes.
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