8/14/2019 MS English Blogs Assessment (Updated Jan 2009)

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Level Ideas Structures Style & language

Questions to help you:

How imaginative and

original are your ideas?How well do your examplessupport your ideas?

Questions to help you:

How skillfully have I structured

my blog post?How well have I usedsentences and paragraphs?

Questions to help you:

How accurate, varied and

effective is my use oflanguage?

Have I used languageappropriate for a wideaudience, including myteachers, parents and fellowstudents

9-10

STRONG

Imagination and depth ofthought are clearly evidentin my work

My work is engaging and Ihave taken risks to make itunique

I use numerous well-chosen relevant details thatsupport and help myaudience

My post is purposefullyorganised

I use a variety of sentencetypes and styles to achievestylistic effects

I use paragraphs andtransitions carefully andeffectively

I use topic sentences skillfully

My style and languageachieves a desired effectappropriate to the purpose ofthe blog post

I understand and have shownthat punctuation can be usedas an element of style

I use a tone and voice that addto the impact of my writing

YIS Middle School English Blogs ProjectWriting to provoke, inspire and entertain : Your best blog post assessed

A good blog post makes us want to respond. Agood blog post makes us think. On your YISedublog, we want you to write posts that arecreative, thought-provoking and well written.

Below are the criteria we will use to assess whatyou think is your best post of the semester. Itcould be a post about a book, lm or play thatyou have seen. Or it might be a response tosomething someone else wrote or a task givento you by your teacher.

Your post should be at least three hundredwords long and not more than six hundred, butremember the quality of the ideas and language are the focus here. You will be be given time in classand set homework to write posts, but feel free to add to your blog when you have something you wantto write about (the criteria below are designed to help you develop your writing skills).

8/14/2019 MS English Blogs Assessment (Updated Jan 2009)

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7-8EFFECTIVE

Imagination and depth ofthought are evident in mywork

My work is engaging

I use well-chosenrelevant details thatsupport and help myaudience

I use a variety of sentencetypes and styles to achievestylistic effects

I use paragraphs andtransitions carefully andeffectively

I use good topic sentences

My style and language areaccurate and somewhatvaried

Errors in spelling, punctuationand word-use are infrequentand never impedeunderstandingI use a consistent tone andvoice

5-6DEVELOPING

Imagination is evident inmy work

My work is generallyengaging

I use relevant details thatsupport and help myaudience

I attempt to use a variety ofsentence types

I use paragraphs and transitions

reasonably wellThere is an attempt tosequence my ideas

My style and language areappropriate to task andaudience

There are only a few errors inspelling, punctuation andword-use

I use a consistent tone andvoice

3-4EMERGING

My ideas show a basicunderstanding of the task

I develop some ideas

I attempt to organise my work

I use basic paragraphs

My use of language is notalways effective

There may be regular anderrors in spelling andpunctuation

1-2NOTYET

My ideas show a limitedunderstanding of the task

I attempt the task

I am unsuccessful in organisingmy work

There are signicantweaknesses with the style andlanguage I have used

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