Grades 7–9 Level 2 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:

Yes It’s important. Because there
are lots of problems. People have to know
about space. People go space get reward by
goverment. The things the don’t know the
goverment needs know. It is dengers
but cost money so goverment pay to go.
Goverment It is good to know about
everything that they are hard so moon and
star and asterods need to know.

 

Level 2: Uses more high-frequency and a few low-frequency descriptive words (important, lots, things, needs, dengers [dangerous], everything), instructional words (get, go, know), and synonyms/antonyms (problems/hard, cost/pay) Attempts low-frequency subject-specific words (goverment [government], moon, star [stars], asterods [asteroids])

Level 2: Uses familiar simple sentences (People have to know about space.) Attempts compound sentences (It is dengers [dangerous] but cost [costs] money so goverment [government] pay [pays] to go.)

Level 2: Uses more high-frequency connector words, markers (sequence), and phrases to organize ideas (but) and add detail (so) Attempts low-frequency connector words (because)

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Writing Benchmark Level
2

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 2 indicators, the teacher refers to Level 3 for planning instruction.

Example: Providing explicit instruction on revising word choice and editing for simple verb tenses, using sentence frames, visuals, and word banks (Writing Supporting Competency: Revising and Editing Supports).


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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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