What is independent writing Success criteria 1 Success

What is independent writing ?

Success criteria (1) Success criteria provide pupils with a means of successfully demonstrating their learning. They can also support teachers’ judgements as to whether a pupil has achieved specific learning intentions in a piece of writing. Pupils can use success criteria to assess their own work, address their own concerns, and identify areas for improvement.

Success criteria (2) If success criteria are over-detailed, they can impact on the independent nature of the writing, for example: I have started a sentence with If, When or Because. X I have used subordinating conjunctions I have inserted a comma after a fronted adverbial. X I have used fronted adverbials I have used commas I have written a sentence in the passive voice to create X suspense, eg They were trapped! I have used the passive tense Success criteria should encourage pupils to focus on the criteria against which the work will be assessed, without

Editing/redrafting/marking/ feedback/response Let children independently edit before marking, using the success criteria Redrafting – let children redraft just one paragraph not the whole piece of writing Use success criteria to mark, feed back and to support children’s responses to marking Direct/indirect marking

Gathering evidence