The purpose of the Folio task within this unit is to enable you to demonstrate your knowledge and skills across the range of activities involved in teaching English in the primary classroom. By completing both parts of the Folio, you will generate evidence of your capacity to plan and assess English units and lessons, compare and evaluate tools and resources designed for English teaching, and demonstrate your knowledge of the Australian Curriculum: English (ACARA, n.d.). In this first Folio submission, the focus is on your knowledge of forms of assessment appropriate for English. Assessment details Task 1: Chapter 9 of the text for this unit (Seely Flint et al., 2014) focuses on effective assessment practices for reading and writing. Your task is to choose three strategies for assessing writing, and three for assessing reading, and complete the table below. Please use the template provided by your eLA for completing the table. What is being assessed? How is data collected? How is data used by the teacher? Critical evaluation* Assessing writing strategy #1 (please name the strategy) Limitations: Benefits: Assessing writing strategy #2 Assessing writing strategy #3 Assessing reading strategy #1 Assessing reading strategy #2 Assessing reading strategy #3 *Critical evaluation requires you to identify the limitations and benefits of each strategy. You are to use third person and to write no more than 600 words in the table. This will require concise use of language. 2 EDU70005 English in the primary classroom Task 2: Imagine you have been asked to discuss assessment with the school’s senior staff. They are interested in implementing different approaches to assessment, and have asked for your input. On the basis of your evaluation, you are to write an argument for one strategy for assessing writing and one for assessing reading, outlining why these should be implemented across the school for the assessment of English. This part of the task should be no more than 400 words. In total your word count should be 1000 words (+/- 10%).