YIS Middle School English Blogs Project

Writing to provoke, inspire and entertainʼ: Your best blog post assessed
A good blog post makes us want to respond. A
good blog post makes us think. On your YIS
edublog, we want you to write posts that are
creative, thought-provoking and well written.

Below are the criteria we will use to assess what

you think is your best post of the semester. It
could be a post about a book, film or play that
you have seen. Or it might be a response to
something someone else wrote or a task given
to you by your teacher.
Your post should be at least three hundred
words long and not more than six hundred, but
remember the quality of the ideas and language are the focus here. You will be be given time in class
and set homework to write posts, but feel free to add to your blog when you have something you want
to write about (the criteria below are designed to help you develop your writing skills).

Level Ideas Structures Style & language

Questions to help you: Questions to help you: Questions to help you:

How imaginative and How skillfully have I structured How accurate, varied and
original are your ideas? my blog post? effective is my use of
language?
How well do your examples How well have I used
support your ideas? sentences and paragraphs? Have I used language
appropriate for a wide
audience, including my
teachers, parents and fellow
students

9-10 Imagination and depth of My post is purposefully My style and language

thought are clearly evident organised achieves a desired effect
S in my work appropriate to the purpose of
T I use a variety of sentence the blog post
R My work is engaging and I types and styles to achieve
O have taken risks to make it stylistic effects I understand and have shown
N unique that punctuation can be used
G I use paragraphs and as an element of style
I use numerous well- transitions carefully and
chosen relevant details that effectively I use a tone and voice that add
support and help my to the impact of my writing
audience I use topic sentences skillfully
7-8 Imagination and depth of I use a variety of sentence My style and language are
E thought are evident in my types and styles to achieve accurate and somewhat
F work stylistic effects varied
F
E Errors in spelling, punctuation
C My work is engaging I use paragraphs and and word-use are infrequent
T transitions carefully and and never impede
I I use well-chosen effectively understanding
V relevant details that I use a consistent tone and
E support and help my I use good topic sentences voice
audience

5-6 Imagination is evident in I attempt to use a variety of My style and language are
D my work sentence types appropriate to task and
E audience
V I use paragraphs and transitions
E My work is generally reasonably well There are only a few errors in
L engaging There is an attempt to spelling, punctuation and
O sequence my ideas word-use
P I use relevant details that I use a consistent tone and
I support and help my voice
N audience
G

3-4 My ideas show a basic I attempt to organise my work My use of language is not
E understanding of the task always effective
I use basic paragraphs
M I develop some ideas There may be regular and
E errors in spelling and
R punctuation
GING

1-2 My ideas show a limited I am unsuccessful in organising There are significant

NOT understanding of the task my work weaknesses with the style and
YET I attempt the task language I have used

Student (The title of the blog entry I want to be assessed is )

Teacher

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