Writing Curriculum Expectations

write simple, coherent narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real or fictional)
write about real events, recording these simply and clearly
demarcate most sentences in their writing with capital letters and full stops, and use question marks correctly when required
use present and past tense mostly correctly and consistently
use co-ordination (e.g. or / and / but) and some subordination (e.g. when / if / that / because) to join clauses
segment spoken words into phonemes and represent these by graphemes, spelling many of these words correctly and making phonically-plausible attempts at others
spell many common exception words*
form capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower-case letters
use spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters.

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