VELS Level 1 and 2 – Assessment to Support Literacy Learning

A range of tools and techniques from the Assessment Professional Learning Modules and the assessment section of the student learning site can be adapted to strengthen assessment practices for literacy.

Module 4 Assessment as learning

Electronic Whiteboard Peer conferencing (PDF - 485Kb)

• Use an electronic whiteboard to model the writing process with students, including strategies for planning, revising, proofreading and editing.

Notes and references

• The following text is taken from Literacy Teaching and Learning in Victorian Schools (paper No 9, part A, page 4): 'While it is systemically important to have broad descriptive parameters of what students should and could be learning at different year levels, students learning needs are not always commensurate with their year level. For example, a Year 10 student might be laying the foundations of literacy required for vocational study; a Year 6 student with a learning disability might be laying the foundations in the English domain; and a Year 2 student might be building breadth and depth in the same domain.'
• Though this resource provides opportunities for teachers to examine a range of literacy assessment tools in designated levels of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards, teachers are encouraged to strategically select and use assessment tools across the stages of schooling to support personalised learning.