- Can spell all vocabulary correctly apart from rare technical or obscure words.
- Can open and close writing in interesting, unusual or dramatic ways, when appropriate.
- Can use the full range of punctuation, almost always accurately and precisely, including for sub-division, effect, listing, direct speech, parenthesis, et cetera.
- Can write neatly and accurately at speed, preferably in a joined style.
- Can vary font for effect or emphasis when appropriate (italics or capitalisation).
- Can use a wide range of conventions appropriately to the context eg paragraphs, sub and side headings, addendum, footnote, contents etcetera.
- Can use a wide range of links to connect paragraphs or sections eg for time, sequence, mode.
- Can use implicit links within text eg referring back to a point made earlier or forward to more information or detail to come.
- Can group items for effect.
10. Can use a range of techniques to interact or show awareness of audience eg action, dialogue, quotation, aside, suspense, tension, comment
11. Can write with confidence and imagination.
12. Can adapt writing for the full range of purposes.
13. Can consciously vary levels of formality according to purpose and audience.
14. Can sustain a convincing viewpoint throughout the piece eg authoritative, expert, convincing portrayal of character, opposing opinions et cetera,
15. Can develop ideas through controlled use of: elaboration, nominalisation or imaginative detail.
16. Uses a wide range of ambitious vocabulary accurately and precisely.
17. Uses a range of stylistic features to create effect within the text eg rhetorical questions, repetition, figurative language, passive voice, metaphor, simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, impersonal voice or universal appeal.
18. Can use varied, creative and varied sentence structure when ppropriate, intermingling with simple structures for effect.
19. Can always construct grammatically correct sentences, unless using dialect or alternative constructions consciously for effect.
20. Can use pertinent and precise detail as appropriate ( repeat?)
21. Can inter mingle a variety of types of sentences, complex with simple and effective placing of clauses.