Independent Writing Task with Teacher Checklist

Year 1 EnglishWriting3 pages

About this worksheet

A three-page Year 1 writing assessment with a picture prompt and a teacher checklist. Page 1 shows a hamster climbing down a ramp out of its cage in a classroom, with three boxes to plan a beginning, middle and end. Page 2 is a full page of lines and has no word bank, so the writing is the pupil's own. Page 3 quotes six Year 1 writing statements word for word, each with Not yet, Sometimes and Secure columns, and a box for next steps. It follows the England National Curriculum for Year 1 writing.

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Independent Writing Task with Teacher Checklist: Writing - page 1

Independent Writing Task with Teacher Checklist: Writing - page 2

Independent Writing Task with Teacher Checklist: Writing - page 3

Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - composition

“Sequencing sentences to form short narratives”

The three-box planner and the story page give the evidence for the first row of the checklist.

Writing - composition

“Re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense”

Page 2 reminds pupils to check their sentences, and row 2 of the checklist records it.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Joining words and joining clauses using and”

Row 4 of the checklist looks for and in the pupil's story.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark”

Row 5 of the checklist. A hamster on the loose gives pupils a reason to use an exclamation mark.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun 'I'”

Row 6 of the checklist. Pupils who give the hamster a name show this one.

What's inside this worksheet

The Great Classroom Escape

A coloured picture of the class hamster leaving its cage, then a three-box planner headed Beginning, Middle and End.

Write Your Story

A full page of lines for the story about the escaping hamster, with a reminder to check the sentences.

Year 1 Writing Assessment Checklist

Six statements, from sequencing sentences to capital letters for names and I, each marked Not yet, Sometimes or Secure. A Next Steps box sits underneath.

How teachers use it

Cold write

Use it at the end of a term with no input beforehand. Keep the story page and the checklist together as evidence for moderation.

Two minutes of talk

Give partners two minutes to say what the hamster does next. Then they draw or jot an idea in each planning box.

Next step

Write one target in the Next Steps box and read it to the pupil. Put the same target at the top of their next piece of writing.

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