Types of Writing Performance

• Imitative
• Intensive (controlled)
• Responsive
• Extensive

1. Produce graphemes and orthographic patterns of English.
2. Produce writing at an efficient rate of speed to suit the purpose.
3. Produce an acceptable core of words and use appropriate word order patterns.

• Macroskills of Writing – Responsive and Extensive

1. Use the rhetorical forms and conventions of written discourse.
2. Appropriately accomplish the communicative functions of written texts according to form and purpose.
3. Distinguish between literal and implied meanings when writing.

This category includes the ability to spell correctly and to perceive phoneme-grapheme correspondences in the English spelling system. At this stage, form is the primary if not exclusive focus, while context and meaning are of secondary concern.

Designing Assessment Tasks
Imitative Writing

• Tasks in [Hand] Writing Letters, Words, and Punctuation

1. Copying

1. Listening cloze selection tasks

1. Picture-cued tasks