1. English Writing Course Calendar and Personal Learning Checklist
The City of Leicester College

2. English Writing (Course Calendar)

3. English Writing (PLC) Vocabulary 8 – 9 Innovative
Vocabulary
8 – 9
Innovative
You deliberately choose vocabulary.
You use clear linguistic devices that are suitable and interesting.
6 - 7
Mastering
You begin to vary vocabulary.
You use linguistic devices in a simple way.
4 - 5
Competent
You use simple vocabulary and attempt to use linguistic devices. (Things like: metaphors, similes, alliteration, emotive vocabulary, etc.)
2 – 3
Developing
You use simple words.
< 2
Foundation
You use simple words but sometimes struggle to use the right word.
Accuracy and Style
8 - 9
Your communication is successful.
You use a wide range of linked and relevant ideas.
Your sentence demarcation is secure and mostly accurate.
Your punctuation is mainly controlled and accurate.
You use Standard English with accurate use of agreement and grammatical structures.
You attempt to use a variety of sentence forms, mostly accurately.
Your spelling is accurate for high frequency words and mostly accurate for irregular words including where vocabulary is varied.
You communicate simply and with some success and some clarity for the reader.
You use a range of linked and relevant ideas.
Your sentence demarcation shows some control over sentence type and structure.
Your punctuation is mostly controlled with some accuracy.
You have some control over sentence types and structures.
You attempt to use Standard English, with mostly accurate use of agreement and grammatical structures.
Your spelling is mostly accurate for high frequency words.
The reader understands your writing even if it is not always accurate.
You link one or two ideas in a simple way but these are not always relevant.
Your spelling is sometimes accurate.
You occasionally use Standard English and can sometimes control things like tenses and plurals.
You try to punctuate in the right places.
You use a simple range of sentence forms.
2 - 3
Developing
The reader understands your writing, but the ideas are simple and not always accurate.
You can join one or two ideas together in a simple way. Sometimes you make a mistake about when to join ideas though.
You can sometimes spell basic words right.
You try to use Standard English occasionally but you are not sure what it is or how things like verbs and tenses change.
Sometimes you try to use punctuation but not always in the right places.
You try to use different sentences but don’t always know how to do this accurately.
< 2
Foundation
The reader can understand simple ideas in your writing, but they are not always clear.
Your writing contains one or two ideas but sometimes these are not the right ideas for the writing you are doing.
You find spelling difficult and make mistakes.
You are not sure about Standard English and the way words change. (Tenses, plurals, etc.)
You try to use punctuation occasionally, but are not sure when is the right time to use it.
You are beginning to try to use a few sentences but you don’t always show where these start or end.
Organisation and Genre
8 – 9
Innovative
You match purpose, form and audience.
Your control of register is mostly secure.
You use paragraphs logically with useful discourse markers.
You use an effective range of structural features.
6 – 7
Mastering
You produce texts with some awareness of purpose, form and audience.
You attempt to control register.
You attempt to use paragraphs and discourse markers with some success.
You attempt to use a range of structural features.
4 – 5
Competent
You know what type of writing to use for the purpose and audience. (Things like formal or informal writing.)
You are trying to use simple structural features to organise your writing.
You use paragraphs.
2 – 3
You are beginning to know what type of writing to use for the purpose and audience. You don’t always do this throughout the whole piece of writing though!
You try to use different ways to organise your writing. (Things like: grouping ideas together: using a beginning, middle and end; etc.
You use paragraphs but don’t really know when they should start and end.
You are not sure about the different types of writing and how this matters depending on who will be reading your writing.
You are not sure about how to organise your writing.
You don’t use paragraphs.