The Numerosity Project

How often do you mark student writing samples and groan at the amount of improvement targets they need to hit? I have been doing this a lot, lately! To help provide students with explicit feedback about what they need to improve on with their writing I designed these Writing Improvement Focus Slips. Each improvement slip targets an aspect of the NAPLAN marking guide for narrative and persuasive writing. There are slips targeting skills for; Audience Ideas Paragraphing Text Structure Cohesion

If you are using writing improvement focus slips to help your students target their writing skills, this is a great way of keeping track of their progress. To help provide students with explicit awareness of their progress towards improvement I designed this tracking booklet. There is space to glue an improvement focus slip to show where the student is now. Students look at writing samples to reflect on how they are going and where they need to go next.When they achieve their target they reco