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A recommendation worth revising

Review date: November 6, 2026

Grade 8 practice task: recommend one change to the school reading area.

Source sheet

12 students used the room once; 8 chairs were occupied and 4 students sat on the floor. An unused folding table occupied space where two chairs fit. Prices and other days are not supplied.

Student sample

The school should replace the unused folding table with two chairs. Four students sat on the floor, so two chairs will solve the seating problem. The room diagram shows that two chairs fit. Some people might want to keep the table, but nobody needs it.

Explanation · Developing

Two chairs reduce the observed shortage from four to two. Revise the claim that this solves the whole problem.

Practical concern · Developing

Replace nobody needs it with a question about when the table is used.

Possible revision

Two chairs would reduce the shortage in the observed period from four seats to two. Before removing the table, the school should check whether other classes use it.

Criteria you can assess from the work

Recommendation

Ready Names a specific change and keeps the argument focused on whether that change should be made.

Developing Names a change, but part of the essay argues for a different or broader proposal.

Starting Discusses the reading area without a clear recommendation.

Use of supplied evidence

Ready Selects accurate details from the sheet that bear directly on the proposed change.

Developing Includes a relevant detail, but misstates part of it or relies on information the sheet does not give.

Starting Relies on unsupported statements or details unrelated to the proposal.

Explanation

Ready Explains how the selected details support the recommendation and distinguishes an expected benefit from a demonstrated result.

Developing Explains the connection incompletely or claims more than the supplied evidence supports.

Starting Repeats the recommendation or evidence without explaining the connection.

Practical concern

Ready Identifies a relevant concern and answers it within the information available, including what still needs checking.

Developing Mentions a concern but dismisses it without explanation or necessary information.

Starting Does not address a practical concern.

Organization and readability

Ready Groups related ideas and uses sentences whose meaning can be followed without guesswork.

Developing The argument can be followed, but a jump between ideas or unclear sentence interrupts it.

Starting The order or wording prevents the reader from identifying the argument.