A student should know that a Level 4 writer can:

• spell most words accurately;
• use adventurous words;
• use different sentences which begin with capital letters and end with full stops;
• use capital letters for names;
• use commas and speech marks in the correct places;
• set out dialogue correctly;
• organise the writing into paragraphs.

A student should know that a Level 5 writer can:

• spell the majority of words accurately;
• use words and phrases appropriately and effectively;
• use different kinds of sentences correctly;
• begin sentences in different ways;
• use commas, apostrophes, semi-colons, colons, brackets and dashes accurately;
• use paragraphs confidently.