Composition
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Year 1 Writing Practice Statement trackers
A simple tracker for your class. Practice Statements down the left, ten student-name spaces across the top, and blank cells to use your way.
Choose a strand below. Write in the names, then add your own ticks, dates, codes or notes. For a class of 25, print three copies of the tracker.
Choose a tracker by strand
Each preview shows the first page of that PDF. Longer strands continue over several pages, with space for the same ten names on every page.
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In Composition, Transcription Skills and Writing processes, each curriculum subcategory starts on a new page within its strand PDF. Longer subcategories continue under the same heading.
Practice Statements included
These trackers cover all 22 stored Year 1 Writing Practice Statements, organised into their curriculum strands and skill groups.
Composition
Audience, purpose, and language choice
- Following along while the teacher writes for different purposes
- Suggesting an audience and purpose for the teacher to write about
- Using words and phrases that show simple relationships and verbs that correctly show different tenses
- Identifying and discussing simple language features in texts that entertain
Sentence structures, grammar, and punctuation
- Saying a simple sentence, with a subject-verb clause
- Using simple sentences in writing
- Correctly using full stops and capital letters
Writing to entertain
- Writing one or more sentences about a single event or several loosely linked events in the order in which they occurred
Writing to inform
- Writing one or more sentences sharing learnt information about a topic
Writing to persuade
- Writing a sentence stating an opinion, feeling, or preference about a topic
Transcription Skills
Handwriting
- Forming most lower- and upper-case letters and numerals correctly and legibly, with each letter or numeral on the line, and attending to size and spacing
- Sitting comfortably, applying a comfortable amount of pressure, and using a functional pencil grip, independently
Spelling
- Orally segmenting phonemes in a single-syllable, CCVC or CVCC word
- Identifying and recording phonemes in words, including: the five short vowel sounds; all single-letter consonant sounds; some consonant digraphs
- Applying phoneme-to-grapheme knowledge to spell single-syllable CVC words, words with consonant digraphs (e.g. sh, th, ng), and words with two adjacent consonants (CVCC, CCVC)
- Spelling 10 or more words that are high frequency in their oral vocabulary and contain irregular or currently untaught phoneme–grapheme correspondences
Writing processes
Drafting
- Writing one or more sentences, after planning each sentence orally
- Beginning at the margin and leaving spaces between words
Planning
- Planning their writing through talk, determining the precise wording of each sentence before writing it
- Identifying and working towards a specific writing goal
Revising and editing
- Rereading to check each sentence as they write
- Checking each sentence for known spelling patterns, capital letters, and full stops
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