Literacy: Writing criteria Year 4

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Score
Criteria Description
0-3
Does the text have a clear purpose and are selected elements appropriate to this
Purpose
purpose?
Does the text orient, support and engage the interest of the intended reader and
Audience
are selected elements appropriate to this audience?
Is there growing knowledge of the structure of learning area texts and is the
Text structure and
complexity of the text structures appropriate to the approach to the topic, the
organisation
purpose and the intended audience?
Does the text contain key information and supporting details relevant to the
Subject matter purpose and audience and does it show understanding of how images and detail
can be used to extend key ideas?
Depending on the purpose, is the text made cohesive through the use of the
most appropriate devices?
Cohesion
 see P-Y3 information and
 linking devices such as text connectives and pronoun reference
Does the text use simple, compound and complex sentence structures to
describe, explain, report and make connections between ideas and events and
are these sentences punctuated accurately?
Sentence structure and
punctuation
Punctuation:
 see P-Y3 information and
 quotation marks to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech
Does the text demonstrate growing knowledge of subject-specific vocabulary,
noun groups, verb groups, adverbs and prepositional phrases to enrich sentences
and provide detail?
Vocabulary and word
groups Are the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting or
recording used appropriately?

*Also see P-3 information

Does the text contain accurately spelled topic words, homophones, more
Spelling complex irregular words, regular words and word families containing known
letters and letter clusters (including double letters), and is there evidence of the
use of strategies for attempting unknown words?
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