The Writing Process Pencil Tracker Poster

This is my favourite thing I’ve added to my classroom!

I use this on my Working Wall to keep a bit more of a closer eye on where the children are during writing sessions. This way I can easily work out who I need to see next. For example, if after 2 minutes there’s 3 children on publish, or equally if after 50 mins there’s 3 still on planning, I know I need to check their work quickly.

At the end of each session, the children put their books away and move their location marker (which has their name on) to the part of the writing process that they think they’re on. This helps me better prioritise which to mark and plan small group interventions in the next lesson if I don’t have time to mark in-depth all of the children’s work before the next lesson. It also really helped the children’s writing stamina and understanding that writing isn’t one quick lesson!

Equally, it gives me lots of opportunity to help address children’s self-assessment skills - we occasionally pair and share each others work and discuss which part of the process we think that person is on. This helped the children develop in their own self-assessments.

The colours match with my schools writing policy (purple ‘polishing’ pen corrections etc.) and my Writing Working Wall colours in my own classroom but if there are other colours you’d prefer, please pop a comment on and I can work on another one for you :)

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