Question Process Success Criteria Some useful phrases Timings Q5: Viewpoint Writing Write an article giving you Work out the TAP of the question: Content and Organisation Grades 1-4 40 marks = viewpoint on… Make sure that your writing is clear and appropriate. Whilst snow is beautiful, I 45 minutes Viewpoint/ perspective writing Use good vocabulary. believe that it also causes Type of writing: (letter, speech etc) Organise your writing into paragraphs. disruption, mayhem and chaos. Content Audience for your writing: (local Link your paragraphs together i.e. link the ending back to the Don’t you agree? and community, school friends, broadsheet beginning, use time (chronological or flashback) newspaper readers etc) Use a range of short and long paragraphs. Grades 5-9 - Be more subtle Purpose of your writing: (persuade, with your viewpoint = 24 marks argue, explain) Be original to make it interesting. Whilst snow may be beautiful, the mayhem, disruption and SPAG = 16 Remember to use appropriate devices: SPAG chaos that it causes far marks Use a range of punctuation (. , ? ! ; : ‘ … -) outweighs any picture-postcard Alliteration Use a range of sentences for effect (simple, compound and scenes of tranquillity and Facts complex) silence. Opinion Use the same tense throughout Rhetorical questions/ repetition Emotive language Check your work when you have finished correcting any errors. Superlatives Threes Personal pronouns Exaggeration Rhetorical questions Statistics Undermine the other Anecdote Direct address Emotive language Repetition +
Question Process Success Criteria Some useful phrases Timings Q5: Viewpoint Writing Write an article giving you viewpoint on… Work out the TAP of the question: Viewpoint/ perspective writing Type of writing: (letter, speech etc) Audience for your writing: (local community, school friends, broadsheet newspaper readers etc) Purpose of your writing: (persuade, argue, explain) Remember to use appropriate devices: Alliteration Facts Opinion Rhetorical questions/ repetition Emotive language Superlatives Threes Personal pronouns Exaggeration Rhetorical questions Statistics Undermine the other Anecdote Direct address Emotive language Repetition Content and Organisation Make sure that your writing is clear and appropriate. Use good vocabulary. Organise your writing into paragraphs. Link your paragraphs together i.e. link the ending back to the beginning, use time (chronological or flashback) Use a range of short and long paragraphs. Be original to make it interesting. SPAG Use a range of punctuation (. , ? ! ; : ‘ … -) Use a range of sentences for effect (simple, compound and complex) Use the same tense throughout Check your work when you have finished correcting any errors. Grades 1-4 Whilst snow is beautiful, I believe that it also causes disruption, mayhem and chaos. Don’t you agree? Grades 5-9 - Be more subtle with your viewpoint Whilst snow may be beautiful, the mayhem, disruption and chaos that it causes far outweighs any picture-postcard scenes of tranquillity and silence. 40 marks = 45 minutes Content and = 24 marks SPAG = 16 marks +
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