Writing meaningful text: encoding resources

This assessment task has students writing a short conversation between friends, using speech marks that have been modelled in the task.

The focus of this resource is selecting the appropriate punctuation to end sentences. The resource ends with a shared activity where students write some sentences about themselves, share them with a partner, and give each other feedback on their punctuation.

In this resource students select the correct word from a range of homophones from the essential word lists.

For this NEMP task students write a letter to a company requesting some information.

For this NEMP task students are required to fill out a form to join a Fun Club.

Students create a vignette with a focus on writing that is brief, descriptive, and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing, and to use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.

Students place photos of a canoe trip in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students create a character vignette with a focus on writing pieces that are brief, descriptive, and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing, and to use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.

This task has students writing about themselves. Assessment focus: the use of capitals.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students complete sentences by adding a given noun or pronoun and using an apostrophe as required.

Students place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students explain why three sentences are ambiguous and rewrite them to make the meaning clearer.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.

Students identify common spelling errors, taken from the essential word lists, and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

Students are asked to read a short story and to insert the speech marks required to punctuate the direct speech in the story.

This task assesses students' ability to discriminate between the use of full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks by asking them to read a letter and insert the appropriate punctuation at the end of each sentence.

This punctuation resource has a focus on colons and semi-colons. Students insert colons into sentences and demonstrate their knowledge of differences between colons and semi-colons.

Students add commas to enclose words or phrases within sentences to show where extra information has been added.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

The focus of this resource is selecting the appropriate punctuation to end sentences. The resource ends with a shared activity where students write some sentences about themselves, share them with a partner, and give each other feedback on their punctuation.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.