Pauline Marsden, Sandon High School, Julie Dale, St John Fisher RC School, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Jon Clarke at Cannock Chase High School together with Peter Davies from Staffordshire University used Best Practice Research Scholarships to develop  further the method of helping KS3 students to understand different levels of attainment in geographical writing. The model in year one was found to work with higher ability pupils but how did we make it work for lower ability pupils.

A ‘model’ variation has been developed for describing progression in pupils’ written descriptions and explanations. The main conclusion was that examples used needed to be specific.  The written descriptions were simplified.

Download Better explanations and descriptions for middle to lower ability pupils

Click the right mouse on the link and choose Save Target as or Save Link as' . 

Download examples of specific work

River Flooding
European Union
International Migration

Pauline's procedures are here too

Peter Davies, Jon Clarke and I offer  third model on judgement writing is still at the development stage. It can as a model of progression to help teachers differentiate objectives when planning lessons for role plays, written discussion genre essays.

Further comments to kate.russell@staffordshire.gov.uk and if you adapt it then send me the updated version please.

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