The Education (Curriculum Minimum Content) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

WRITING

Pupils should be enabled to:

• participate in modelled, shared, guided and independent writing, including composing on-screen;

• understand and use a range of vocabulary by investigating and experimenting with language;

• talk about and plan what they are going to write;

• begin to check their work in relation to specific criteria;

• write without prompting, making their own decisions about form and content;

• write for a variety of purposes and audiences;

• express thoughts, feelings and opinions in imaginative and factual writing;

• organise, structure and present ideas and information using traditional and digital means;

• understand some of the differences between spoken and written language;

• use a variety of skills to spell words in their writing;

• spell correctly a range of familiar, important and regularly occurring words;

• develop increasing competence in the use of grammar and punctuation;

• use a legible style of handwriting.