Grades 10–12 Level 1 Writing Assessment Exemplar

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Do you think it is important for people to continue to travel into space? Why or why not? You may want to think about issues, such as

  • costs
  • dangers
  • rewards
Student Example

Student writing assessment exemplar:

I think it is important for people to travel into space but
danger too. Now what happening around the world we need
to know is the space is free as meteorists. Government pay
money for space. They way too many money in space. Go
to space is important. Repair satellite and see planet, look
at moon. They need to get out of the planet. The ozone cup
is messing up. It is dangerous to go to space. People travel
to space not careful. People have got reward it’s for staying
space one week. So it’s important for space some people to
continue to travel going to space. But money is too many.

 

Level 2: Uses more high-frequency and a few low-frequency descriptive words (important, around, free, many, dangerous, careful), instructional words (repair, look), and synonyms/antonyms (dangerous/careful, staying/going)

Level 1: Uses familiar phrases in simple patterned sentences (Government pay money for space.)

Level 1: Uses some high-frequency connector words and markers (time, place) to connect ideas (but, and, so) and locate items/objects (to, at, out)

Use the checkboxes below to display the corresponding Benchmarks 2.0 indicators.

 
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Writing Benchmark Level
1

Next Steps

After determining English proficiency levels, teachers can refer to the Supporting Competency Indicators found in Benchmarks 2.0 for strategies to inform programming and instruction of EAL learners in all subjects. Once a student demonstrates Level 1 indicators, the teacher refers to Level 2 for planning instruction.

Example: Providing multilingual resources and sentence starters/frames (General Supporting Competency: Instructional Strategies and Learning Supports).


How to Use This Writing Assessment Exemplar

This collection of writing assessment exemplars provides teachers of English as an additional language (EAL) learners with examples of student writing at each English proficiency level and grade range.

Teachers can use these interactive exemplars to build their understanding of Benchmarks 2.0 competencies (vocabulary, sentence structure, and connections and transitions) and proficiency levels in writing.

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  4. Review “Next Steps” for examples of how to use the Benchmarks 2.0 writing assessment to inform programming and instruction in all subject areas.

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