The grade ladders have been useful in targeting top level skills and applying them in our work.
This is a particularly effective way at building your grade because it gives you a hierarchy. If you think of the ladder as a pyramid (too many metaphors?) then you will find most of Rung 1 in your work with examples of higher level skills as you go through to Rung 5 where you will be showing judicious (well judged) examples of top level devices, sentences, punctuation, paragraphs and vocabulary (the cherry on the top of the cake if you will- somebody stop me with these metaphors!).
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Writing MOT 2014
You will now be receiving your writing MOT that evaluates the skills you have shown in coursework drafts and classwork. Below are the criteria for accessing each grade so you can reference this as you work through your re-drafts.
The key academic language referenced in the vocabulary section is found here
Below E Grade
Spelling - Your work contains frequent errors in simple spelling.
Punctuation - You often use commas where you should use full stops and may miss out capital letters in proper nouns or at the beginning of sentences.
Vocabulary - You mostly use informal language in your......
