Assessing Pupils' Progress: Assessment guidelines

These assessment grids contain guidelines to support teachers' assessment from levels 1 to 5, and focus on the key level borderlines at Key Stage 2.

The assessment guidelines can be accessed below:

• Reading assessment guidelines for levels 1 and 2
• Reading assessment guidelines for levels 2 and 3
• Reading assessment guidelines for levels 3 and 4
• Reading assessment guidelines for levels 4 and 5

• Writing assessment guidelines for levels 1 and 2
• Writing assessment guidelines for levels 2 and 3
• Writing assessment guidelines for levels 3 and 4
• Writing assessment guidelines for levels 4 and 5

• Mathematics assessment guidelines for levels 1 and 2
• Mathematics assessment guidelines for levels 2 and 3
• Mathematics assessment guidelines for levels 3 and 4
• Mathematics assessment guidelines for levels 4 and 5

Versions of the guidelines containing levels 1 to 8 are available to download below:

• English assessment guidelines for levels 1 to 8
• Mathematics assessment guidelines for levels 1 to 8