Curriculum for Excellence

Creating texts

– applying the elements which writers use to create different types of short and extended texts with increasingly complex ideas, structures and vocabulary
Early First Second Third Fourth
    I am learning to use language and style in a way which engages and/or influences my reader.
I can engage and/or influence readers through my use of language, style and tone as appropriate to genre.
I can engage and/or influence readers through my use of language, style and tone as appropriate to genre.
  I can convey information, describe events or processes, share my opinions or persuade my reader in different ways.

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I can convey information, describe events, explain processes or combine ideas in different ways.

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I can convey information, describe events, explain processes or concepts, and combine ideas in different ways.

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I can convey information and describe events, explain processes or concepts, providing substantiating evidence, and synthesise ideas or opinions in different ways.

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    I can persuade, argue, explore issues or express an opinion using relevant supporting detail and/or evidence.

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I can persuade, argue, evaluate, explore issues or express an opinion using a clear line of thought, relevant supporting detail and/or evidence.

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I can persuade, argue, evaluate, explore issues or express and justify opinions within a convincing line of thought, using relevant supporting detail and/or evidence.

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  I can describe and share my experiences and how they made me feel.
As I write for different purposes and readers, I can describe and share my experiences, expressing what they made me think about and how they made me feel.
I can recreate a convincing impression of a personal experience for my reader, sharing my feelings and reactions to the changing circumstances with some attempt at reflection.
I can create a convincing impression of my personal experience and reflect on my response to the changing circumstances to engage my reader.
I enjoy exploring events and characters in stories and other texts and I use what I learn to invent my own, sharing these with others in imaginative ways.

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Having explored the elements writers use in different genres, I can use what I learn to create my own stories, poems and plays with interesting structures, characters and/or settings.
Having explored the elements writers use in different genres, I can use what I learn to create stories, poems and plays with an interesting and appropriate structure, interesting characters and/or settings which come to life.
Having explored the elements which writers use, I can create texts in different genres by:
  • integrating the conventions of my chosen genre successfully and/or
  • using convincing and appropriate structures and/or
  • creating interesting and convincing characters and/or
  • building convincing settings which come to life.
Having explored and experimented with the narrative structures which writers use to create texts in different genres, I can:
  • use the conventions of my chosen genre successfully and/or
  • create an appropriate mood or atmosphere and/or
  • create convincing relationships, actions and dialogue for my characters.