English Developmental Continuum P–10 – Writing
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Conventions of Writing Scaffolding learning from 1.75
Indicators of Progress
- Students use a variety of sentence structures (simple and compound) in the text and use appropriately a variety of nouns, verbs and adjectives. The sentences are usually correct grammatically.
- Students mostly use ending punctuation correctly, such as full stops and question marks. They continue to experiment with the correct use of exclamation marks. They use capital letters correctly most of the time.
- Students achieve written sentence fluency by using sentence linking words.
- Students show a refined pencil grip that leads to fluency in correct letter formation.
Teaching Strategies
The learning and teaching approach for writing is illustrated for students responding within the context of Mini-beasts.
Composing phase
Appropriate sentence structures
Students write about minibeasts using basic sentence forms that contain at least two ideas and are sequenced appropriately, with the subject, verb and object used correctly. They:
- write simple and compound sentences, use a variety of nouns, verbs and adjectives appropriately and begin to vary beginnings and lengths
- use capital letters, full stops, question marks exclamation marks, apostrophes and 'talking marks'
- use simple conjunctions to join ideas, data, reasons, or opinions (and, but)
- use nouns, verbs and pronouns correctly and show elementary subject verb agreement, singular / plural agreement for nouns and elementary verb tense agreement.
Students experiment with combining or expanding sentences, particularly after their initial sentence drafts and achieve written sentence fluency by using sentence linking words.