The document outlines a school's plan to implement Language and Literacy Levels (L&LL) to plan, assess, and track student growth in writing. The plan includes developing teacher capacity through professional development, having teachers level student writing in sentence structure, and establishing a moderation process to ensure consistent application of levels. It discusses celebrating student success by documenting examples of writing development tagged to the literacy levels.

1. EALD Language and
Literacy Levels
November 2015

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

3. 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)

4. Moderation Process
• Vicki and Daniela invited to be moderators
• Our school was moderated – 10 samples,
on the whole our levelling processes were
affirmed
• Results:

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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 their work and identify the
features which are evident (in terms of
sentence structure).
• Keep notes to go with photos relating to
the Literacy Levels (sentence structure).
• Upload on to See Saw as a reference.

8. Self Assessment
• How do you assess your own knowledge of sentence structure
at the start of the year?
3 3 5 2
0 1 2 3 4 5
• How do you assess your own knowledge of sentence structure
now?
• 2 2 1 4 4
0 1 2 3 4 5