EALD Language and Literacy LevelsNovember 2015

SMARTA Goals• Teachers are able to apply the Language & Literacy Levels (L&

LL) to plan, document and assess every student’s growth in writing.

• All students progress by at least one level each year, moving towards two levels for EALD students.

• Planning using L& L Levels is evident and supportive of differentiation – goals for EALD learners are linked to L & L Levels.

Plan• Developed with Rosie and Camilla as a capacity building

process• Lead Team – ½ day PD and 2 days levelling (Term 1 and Term 2)• PD for whole staff – Information Reports and Persuasive

Writing, Grammar aspects• Staff levelling EALD students for sentence structure, and then

rest of the class (sentence structure)

Moderation Process

• Vicki and Daniela invited to be moderators• Our school was moderated – 10 samples, on

the whole our levelling processes were affirmed• Results: • 60% equal to Moderation Team• 30% 1 level lower than Moderation Team

suggested• 10% 2 levels lower than Moderation Team

suggested

Ethos

• Teachers to be able to level writing in order to know where individual and cohorts are at to cater for their needs – to support and challenge

Resources

• Lead Team – looking to build this next year• EALD Teacher• Leadership• PD opportunities•Work samples to act as a reference point• Assessment proformas to develop efficient

ways of collecting information – Vicki and Daniela to work together on this

Celebrating Success• Choose some work samples which

highlight the development of a child’s sentence structure from the beginning of the year to current.• Take photos of student’s work and identify

the features which are evident (in terms of sentence structure). Don’t include the student’s name.• Keep notes to go with photos relating to

the Literacy Levels (sentence structure).

Self Assessment• How do you assess your own knowledge of sentence structure

at the start of the year?

0 1 2 3 4 5 • How do you assess your own knowledge of sentence structure

now?

0 1 2 3 4 5

Next Steps• Expand Sentence Structure• Also focus on Punctuation and Text Cohesion

• Feedback on the process/ implementation/ resources/ support welcome