Linked to the Victorian curriculum, we teach strategies for planning, writing and editing your own work. At this level, we teach students to:

  • Plan, write and edit their work across imaginative, informative and persuasive genres using evidence supported scaffolds and planning tools

  • Be able to use punctuation appropriately (sentence boundary and internal punctuation) when writing sentences

  • Use appropriate grammar such as subject/verb agreement, tense, quoted speech and complex sentence structures

  • Selection of vocabulary appropriate to text types

  • Use spelling rules and morphology to increase use of written vocabulary

Linked to the Victorian curriculum, we teach strategies for planning, writing and editing your own work. At this level, we teach students to:

  • Plan, write and edit imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance arguments using evidence supported scaffolds and planning tools

  • Organise paragraphs effectively using scaffolds and planning tools

  • Understand how coherence is created in complex texts through devices like lexical cohesion, ellipsis, grammatical theme and text connectives

  • Understand the use of punctuation to support meaning in complex sentences with prepositional phrases and embedded clauses

  • Use text summarisation skills to enhance their own understanding of what they read

  • Use synonyms to make careful word choices when conveying meaning

  • Develop effective study habits for efficient and targeted writing