Y6 - Maia Walczak - The Black Hat - Moderating Writing

We used this video, planning and writing frame to assess writing in year 6. The children watched the video - https://vimeo.com/45584240 ; I then gave them the planning frame to start putting their ideas down. The idea is that children re-tell the story in their own words. Then, once they had their planning notes completed, I gave them the writing frame to write in best draft. You can then use this to moderate the children's writing. I am basing it on 'Working Towards Year 6', 'Working at Year 6' and 'Working above Year 6' from the Government KS2 Writing Assessment document. We gave the children either a 6E (Year 6 Emerging) 6D (Year 6 Developing) and 6M (6 Mastered). This was just a key reference we used, but is now being considered the norm.