Report card season is here. This free resource gives you 12 ready-to-use narrative writing comments across all four performance levels — Not Meeting, Approaching, Meeting, and Exceeding — plus a specific, copy-paste next step for each level.

Every comment and every next step uses [Name] as a placeholder. Replace it with your student’s name and paste directly into your report card system. No rewriting, no adapting — just copy and paste.

The comments cover three core criteria: Ideas and Content, Organisation and Structure, and Conventions. Each one is written to reflect real student performance at the Grades 3-5 level and aligns with IB PYP writing assessment. The full generator covers 4 writing types: Narrative, Opinion, Informational, Persuasive.

WHAT’S INCLUDED
12 ready-to-use narrative writing comments — 3 per performance level
4 copy-paste next steps — one per level, written in student-name format
Performance levels: Not Meeting, Approaching, Meeting, Exceeding
Criteria covered: Ideas and Content, Organisation and Structure, Conventions
2-page PDF: page 1 is the comment reference sheet, page 2 shows how the full generator works

WHO THIS IS FOR
Grades 3-5 classroom teachers writing literacy report cards
IB PYP teachers using narrative writing assessments
Any teacher who needs a faster, more consistent way to write report card comments

WANT MORE
This freebie is a sampler from the Writing Report Card Comment Generator for Grades 3-5 — a Google Sheets tool with 480 ready-to-use comments across 4 writing types: Narrative, Opinion, Informational, Persuasive, 5 IB PYP criteria, and 4 performance levels. Name and pronouns substitute automatically. The full paragraph builds itself. Search DeskMade on TPT to find it.