English Developmental Continuum P–10 – Writing
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Conventions of Writing Scaffolding learning from 1.50
Indicators of Progress
- Students write both simple and compound sentences and attempt to vary beginnings and lengths.
- Students sentences use nouns, verbs and pronouns correctly and show elementary subject–verb agreement, singular/plural agreement for nouns; and elementary verb tense agreement.
- Students use punctuation marks such as capital letters and full stops and may also experiment with the use of question marks and exclamation marks.
- Students use some features of explanatory language such as verbs denoting a specific action, the simple present tense, and the passive voice.
- Students use some features of the language of persuasive writing such as modal verbs (for example, should, can, must) and emotive words.
- Students show an awareness of the differences between spoken and written texts.