Writing Punctuation and grammar – Skill ladder Children are able to: Children may be observed: Observations: Achieved? No statement at this outcome. Bronze __ __ __ No statement at this outcome. Silver __ __ __ No statement at this outcome. Gold __ __ __ No statement at this outcome. Outcome 1 __ __ __ No statement at this outcome. Outcome 2 __ __ __ distinguish between upper- using spaces between words using capital letters and full and lower-case letters and stops, but not always correctly. show an awareness of full stops and spaces between Outcome 3 words. __ __ __ start to use connectives and beginning to use connectives to expand a point, e.g. I like some ordering words when fruit and I like eating lots of grapes. More often than not, they writing, and use capital letters will use capital letters and full stops correctly. Some ordering and full stops with some words will be used, e.g. first, then. Outcome 4 degree of consistency. __ __ __ use connectives and ordering using connectives consistently where appropriate, e.g. I was words when writing and use going to play with Hannah but she is poorly. They will use expressive punctuation and ordering words including first, next, then; lastly their use of simple grammar accurately. simple grammar includes standard forms of some verbs, Outcome 5 e.g. see/saw, go/went, and subject-verb agreement, e.g. I was/we were. Expressive punctuation includes swapping full stops for exclamation marks and question marks where appropriate. __ __ __ start sentences in a variety of varying the start of sentences they write, e.g. My friend ways, using connectives for I went to They will also use connectives Vicky…, When … causation and using different including and and use nouns, pronouns, ’because’ ’after’, types of words and adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, connectives and verb Outcome 6 punctuation correctly. tenses in their writing. Punctuation will include full stops, exclamation marks, questions marks and commas for lists. __ __ __
Skill ladder Children are able to: Children may be observed: Observations: Achieved? Bronze No statement at this outcome. __ __ __ Silver No statement at this outcome. __ __ __ Gold No statement at this outcome. __ __ __ Outcome 1 No statement at this outcome. __ __ __ Outcome 2 No statement at this outcome. __ __ __ Outcome 3 distinguish between upper- and lower-case letters and show an awareness of full stops and spaces between words. using spaces between words using capital letters and full stops, but not always correctly. __ __ __ Outcome 4 start to use connectives and some ordering words when writing, and use capital letters and full stops with some degree of consistency. beginning to use connectives to expand a point, e.g. I like fruit and I like eating lots of grapes. More often than not, they will use capital letters and full stops correctly. Some ordering words will be used, e.g. first, then. __ __ __ Outcome 5 use connectives and ordering words when writing and use expressive punctuation and simple grammar accurately. using connectives consistently where appropriate, e.g. I was going to play with Hannah but she is poorly. They will use ordering words including first, next, then; lastly their use of simple grammar includes standard forms of some verbs, e.g. see/saw, go/went, and subject-verb agreement, e.g. I was/we were. Expressive punctuation includes swapping full stops for exclamation marks and question marks where appropriate. __ __ __ Outcome 6 start sentences in a variety of ways, using connectives for causation and using different types of words and punctuation correctly. varying the start of sentences they write, e.g. My friend Vicky…, When I went to … They will also use connectives including ’because’ and ’after’, and use nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, connectives and verb tenses in their writing. Punctuation will include full stops, exclamation marks, questions marks and commas for lists. __ __ __ Writing – Punctuation and grammar