Year 4 writing moderations Feb –March 2017

Examples of work ‘at’ age related expectation.

Evidence of level: reads for errors, making amendments where necessary, speech marks, commas, varied sentence openers.

Evidence of level: Fronted adverbials, use of paragraph to separate ideas; some adventurous vocabulary

Next steps: use of standard English; variety of punctuation.

Example of writing just below age related expectation

Evidence: uses noun phrases and inverted commas; occasional use of fronted adverbials

Next steps: length of writing and paragraphing; to secure fronted adverbials; capital letters.

Example of writing above age related expectations

Evidence of level: well organised paragraphs; good conjunctions and adverbials to open sentences and paragraphs.

Next steps: tenses, more adverbs and broaden vocabulary.