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Year 2 SATs – ‘Discovering your Hometown’ KS1 Writing Assessment Resource Pack

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This Year 2 writing assessment resource pack provides the opportunity for Key Stage 1 pupils to produce cross-curricular writing that can be assessed against the KS1Teacher Assessment Framework (TAF).

Pupils will write a write a recount, describing what their hometown is like, using age-appropriate geographical vocabulary. A pupil writing checklist is provided to encourage independent proofreading and editing.

Year 2 writing checklists with TAF statements can be used to assess pupils against the Year 2 writing standards for working towards, expected and greater depth standards.

What is a recount?

A recount is written in the past tense about events that have happened. Examples of tests that are recounts include: diaries. an account of a school event or trip out, an historical account of events, letters and postcards, newspaper articles and re-telling well-known stories.

What is included in this resource?

  • Teacher slides PowerPoint
  • Picture cards
  • Pupil success criteria checklists
    For pupils to self-assess their writing
  • Pupil writing sheets
    Linked to the theme for their writing
  • TAF writing assessment checklist
    To be used by the teacher to show evidence against the KS1 Teacher Assessment Framework writing statements
  • Teacher’s notes

National Curriculum English programme of study links

Pupils should be taught to develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by:

  • Writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional)
  • Writing about real events
  • Writing poetry
  • Writing for different purposes

Consider what they are going to write before beginning by:

  • Planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about
  • Writing down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary
  • Encapsulating what they want to say, sentence by sentence

Make simple additions, revisions and corrections to their own writing by:

  • Evaluating their writing with the teacher and other pupils
  • Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the continuous form
  • Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation
  • Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear

  • Teacher notes and teaching sequence
  • PowerPoint
  • Writing sheets
  • Pupil success criteria checklist
  • Year 2 writing TAF checklist
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