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Developing Extended Response Writing Skills for HSIE Differentiated Assessment Task: William the Conquer
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Developing Extended Response Writing

Skills for HSIE Differentiated Assessment Task: William the

Conquer

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To provide a working benchmark of student’s extended writing skills (literacy) for the purpose of planning teaching and learning in HSIE Stage 4

Aim

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Year 8 ‘A’ High ability students. Identified gifted

students within the class Unit: Stage 4 : Medieval Europe

Context

explain the impact made by significant people and/or

events on the society or period

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Research and Write Task: William the Conquer

Students are required to attempt an extended response to a set question.

Task

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Fluency

Writing Process

Paragraph

Sentence structure

Cohesion

Focus for assessment

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Able to link through to writing resources

Provides discreet gateways to differentiated tasks

Links to content resources

Using the wiki to post responses

Accountability

Links to

quality resources

Modeling

Differentiated

Gateways

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Modified

•Describe what William the Conqueror did to establish control over England after the Battle of Hastings?

Core•Explain how William the Conqueror established control over England after the battle of Hastings?

Extension•Assess why it took some time for William the Conqueror to establish control over England after the battle of Hastings in 1066? •Explain how his approach to gaining control informs you of the type of ruler William was?

Differentiated Task

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Naplan Results Allwell Results Pretest – Narrative Task Discussion with classroom teachers of 8 A 2009 Semester 1 and 2 Reports Discussion with students about what they

felt was their level of competency Some student after beginning the task

choose to change their option

How were students grouped for this activity?

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Name Overall Literacy Reading Writing Grammar &

Punctuation

Mariateresa Pellegrino 9 9 9 9Grace Delfendahl 9 9 8 9

Charlotte Tudehope 9 9 8 9Marina Aguirre 9 9 6 9

Sonia De Pellegrin 9 8 9 9Alexis O'Connor 9 8 9 9

Nikki-Rae Semaan 9 8 9 9Jess Portas-Hills 9 8 8 9Daniella Antunes 8 9 8 9

Rianna Bernal 8 9 7 8Alana Smyth 8 9 8 7

Clare Ottaviano 8 8 8 9Annabel White 8 8 6 9Sabrina Jelicic 8 8 8 8

Jacqueline Karagiorgas 8 8 8 8Tayla Maloney 8 8 8 8

Vanessa Abdallah 8 8 9 7Sarah Kazzi 8 8 9 7

Jessica Whiting 8 8 8 7Cara Di Coio 8 7 8 8

Isabella Arnone 7 8 6 7Melissa Li On Wing 7 8 6 7Chelsea McGifford 7 7 6 8Gabrielle Catanese 7 7 8 7Georgina Claxton 7 7 8 7

Ashley McSpadden 7 7 7 7Isabella Papadopoulos 7 7 7 7

Georgia Golledge 4 9 4 8

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Students were provided with a ‘prompt’ scaffold for each paragraph with directed questions to be answered

Students were provided with a word bank to develop the language of cause and effect within the text

Students recognised that this option reflected students need to build skills in extended response writing

Modified Task

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Question required an explanation of William’s actions rather than a description of ‘what’ he did.

Provides an outline of factors to be considered in the response.

Is identified as ‘independent research and write’ option.

Directs student to PEEL scaffold if required

Core

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Further level of complexity – assessment and explanation

Two part question which requires argument and anaylsis

Requires a different set of language skills in demonstrating the relationship between factors

Requires an evaluation of William’s attempts to secure control over England

Provides students with PEEL scaffold and possible factors to be considered

Extension

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Marking criteria: Ability to identify and describe the events

that contributed to the establishment of power in England under William the Conqueror.

Fluent, coherent response to the question.Extension marking criteria Ability to identify, describe and evaluate

the events that contributed to the establishment of power in England under William the Conqueror

Fluent, coherent response to the question

Assessment Criteria

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A-E Marking Extension Marking1-3 Opportunities to differentiate between

student responses that demonstrate a high level of sophistication and therefore provide learning opportunities that extend their skills

Marking Rubrics


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