See the class. Choose the next lesson.
Turn criterion-level patterns into an explicit lesson, group students who share a learning need for targeted teaching, and follow each student’s writing over time.
Step by step
Classes & teaching, step by step
Connect practice with your curriculum
Choose a learning focus, model it and check independent application.
- Choose the relevant curriculum content and a manageable writing or spelling focus for your class.
- Explain and model the focus, practise together, then ask students to apply it in their own writing or spelling attempt.
- Read the work alongside feedback, guide a purposeful revision and check the skill again in a later task. NAPLAN criterion scores are not automatic curriculum grades.
Find your class’s next teaching focus
Use patterns across writing to plan a focused lesson.
- Look across the criterion-level class view for shared strengths and areas that need attention.
- Read examples of student work behind the pattern before choosing a teaching focus.
- Plan a short lesson around that focus, then use later writing to check how students apply it.
Use groups for focused teaching
Group students who share a next step.
- Use Smart Groups to identify students with related learning opportunities or strengths.
- Review the work and your knowledge of each learner before deciding who will benefit from working together.
- Keep groups flexible. Revisit them as students practise and their writing changes.
Look at student progress over time
Compare earlier and later work, with its feedback.
- Review a student’s collection of work, including earlier pieces and revisions.
- Compare similar writing tasks and criterion-level feedback, while considering how much support was provided.
- Discuss specific changes with the student and use that evidence to agree on their next goal.
The short version
Good to know.
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The class on the criteria
Look across the class view for shared strengths and areas that need attention, then read the writing behind them.
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Smart Groups
Bring together students who share a learning need for targeted teaching, and keep the groups flexible as their writing changes.
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Progress over time
Compare earlier and later pieces, with their feedback, before you agree a student’s next goal.
Go further
Keep learning.
Bring your class’s writing to a demo.
We’ll walk through the class view, Smart Groups and a student’s progress, and talk about the lesson you’d teach next.
In 30 minutes, you’ll see
- Writing marked on the NAPLAN criteria, with feedback
- Smart Groups for teaching, and the leadership view
- Spelling Boost, in the same school plan
- Answers on pricing, onboarding and privacy
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