Identifying texts in the Warning Zone

This article addresses the basis for development of screening tool Norwegian Early Writers Signal (NEWS). The aim study was to develop a teachers in grades 1–3 identify student texts ‘the Warning Zone’, i.e., that signal insufficient overall text quality associated with students need extra instructional support. Text norms were elicited from panel 14 experts standardsetting seminar. standard-setting procedure benchmarking-like approach which panelists chose according their judgement Zone. Additionally, an online questionnaire, data on experts’ expectation growth pattern eight aspects collected. Furthermore, Zone marked and then included concretize norms, showing this zone can take several shapes. discusses what steps be taken further validate implement NEWS tool.