Students use writing at an age appropriate level to communicate a message as they:
• Use a process to plan, draft, revise, edit and publish a range of texts
• Demonstrate voice in writing by imitating mentor texts
• Write a range of text types selected according to purpose and audience
• Develop ideas with supporting details and descriptive language
• Organise main ideas and supporting detail into paragraphs
• Use literary devices in writing
• Use vocabulary drawn from a range of sources to enhance writing
• Offer and receive constructive feedback to improve the writing of themselves and peers
Students demonstrate conventions of written text as they:
• Spell words by applying knowledge of morphology, phonology, etymology and orthography
• Use spelling strategies to self-monitor and self-correct
• Write legibly in a consistent style
• Use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly
• Use speech marks, commas, apostrophes
• Follow grammatical rules, vary sentence beginnings, structures and length for impact