Rachel The Writing Teacher

They’re free.

Made by ACARA.

And they contain:

- student work from early development to advanced Year 9

- for both persuasive and narrative

- including glossaries, vocab/spelling lists

- and the offical marking guidelines

This isn’t about gaming the system.

It’s about informing yourself. And your students.

Comment FREE and I’ll send you the links to the free official guidelines …

They’ll blow your mind.

And if teachers knew they existed .. and read them … they’d be mind blown too.

Shout out to all the teachers who have overcome inadequate work conditions and inadequate pay to find the time to read them.

You should be given the time. But that’s a problem for the unions to sort out …

I’m just here to share the guidelines … (not affiliated by ACARA!). All opinions are my own.

Straight from the official guidelines:

1. If you don’t finish your argument or story, you will lose marks. This is also a life hack that you …

2. Using “precise” vocab like “capture” instead of “get” will increase your vocab. But like whatevs yea who cares bro …

3. If you use bold, italics, underline and capitalisation once each, you’ll probably increase your mark. Plus short sentences. SHORT. Like this.

4. One sentence paragraphs and one word sentences in STORIES create impact. Use them. Please.

5. start sentences with capitals. because. you keep forgetting.

🚨This isn’t about gaming the system.

This is about empowering teachers and students to know exactly what is in the test so that students don’t get the impression that they are not good writers purely because they didn’t know what they were being assessed on … 🤯🤯🤯

Comment RESULTS and I’ll send you a link to my student friendly one-page NAPLAN-aligned Marking Rubrics filled with valuable information just like this that you can read even the night before NAPLAN, to enhance student confidence and increase their results.

My name is Rachel.
None of this is or ever has been a secret.
But you didn’t know about it til now.
And you should question why that is ..

But for now, start by commenting RESULTS.

Comment FREE. I’ll send the links to you.