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Year 1

Y1 Teacher Assessment for Writing

Y1 - Working towards the expected standard

The pupil can, after discussion with the teacher: 

  • say out loud what they are going to write about
  • write a single sentence demarcated with capital letters and full stops
  • segment many spoken words into phonemes and represent these by graphemes 
  • spell some common exception words*
  • begin to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place 
  • recognise where spaces between words have been missed.

 

Y1 - Working at the expected standard

The pupil can, after discussion with the teacher:

  • read own writing aloud clearly for others to hear and discuss
  • orally rehearse sentences and sequence them to form short narratives
  • join words and clauses with the conjunction ‘and’
  • use past, present and future accurately in speech and begin to incorporate these in their writing
  • demarcate many sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
  • spell some Y1 common exception words* and the days of the week
  • segment spoken words into phonemes and represent these by graphemes, spelling many words in a phonically-plausible way
  • form many letters and digits correctly, with some difference between upper and lower-case

letters

  • use spaces between words.

 

Y1 - Working at greater depth within the expected standard

The pupil can, after discussion with the teacher: 

  • begin to write effectively and coherently for different purposes
  • join words and clauses with a variety of commonly used conjunctions (e.g. and, but, because)
  • use capital letters and full stops mostly correctly
  • spell most Y1 common exception* words accurately and make phonically-plausible attempts at spelling unfamiliar words form most letters correctly.

 

 

 

*These are detailed in the word lists within the spelling appendix to the national curriculum (English Appendix 1).

Teachers should refer to these to exemplify the words that pupils should be able to spell.