WRITING LEVEL 3

Moderate support

Advice and modelling available

Range of familiar contexts

Some less familiar/routine contexts

Some specialisation in routine contexts

Routine texts

May include some unfamiliar elements and embedded information

Includes some specialised vocabulary

PERFORMANCE FEATURES INCLUDE:

• Produces a range of familiar text types, with appropriate structures, across a range of Aspects of Communication
  

• Demonstrates the need to vary written language to meet requirements of audience and purpose
• Chooses appropriate text type to communicate relevant information and/or ideas effectively, e.g. memo, dialogue, poem
• Begins to use writing as a tool for identifying issues and generating new ideas

• Sequences writing to produce cohesive text
• Interrelates ideas and information and some support material when writing about familiar topics
• Uses layout consistent with text type

• Demonstrates an understanding of a range of formal and informal registers

• Uses basic models to produce a range of text types, although may handle some more easily than others
• Uses the process of planning, drafting and proofreading
• Self-corrects own writing to check for consistency and accuracy