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.