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The next phase of guidance in the Making and Marking Progress series, designed by Asset Languages and CILT to help primary language teachers plan for pupil progression in KS2, is now available.
The latest material contains guidance for teachers of children in the Autumn term of Years 3 and 4. The documents relating to mapping progression in the first term of Years 3 and 4 are available here in word document form to download.
These word documents are also available in zipped files to make them easier to email.
The latest Making and Marking Progress material complements the guidance contained in a printed taster pack, covering the Summer term of Year 3, that was delivered to all primary schools in May 2009.
Making and Marking Progress is designed to map the progression of young language learners along the DSCF Languages Ladder. It fits with any scheme of work and contains activities relevant for any language. The programme is being developed by Asset Languages and CILT, on behalf of the DSCF. Over the next two years, further material will be rolled out to help teachers to identify, plan for and record the progression of young language learners throughout KS2.
Therese Comfort, Head of Primary at CILT, commented. "Identifying progression in language learning is one of the most challenging things for all teachers. 'Making and Marking Progress' will help practitioners reach a shared understanding of what progression looks like in the primary classroom."
"These materials are designed to help teachers recognise and acknowledge the small steps of progress made by children in the Autumn Term of Year 3 and 4. Based on objectives from the Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages and with reference to the Languages Ladder, the materials use examples from the QCA Schemes of Work. However they can be used with all schemes of work currently available."
We hope you find this guidance helpful. The Making and Marking Progress documents are only in draft form at this stage. Before the final versions of the Making and Marking Progress series is published, teachers and advisers are encouraged to provide feedback. Please email your feedback to us, using the form below, at primaryprogress@ocr.org.uk.
Responsible for delivering KS2 languages? You may be interested in a training course looking at progression issues being offered as part of the Links into Languages professional development programme starting in October 2009. The course will ‘address progression, assessment, and tracking pupils’ progress. It will provide an overview from Asset, and explore transition across key stages’. For more info, click on the following link: www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/events/courses.html
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