NRS Writing

Indicators of Competence assessed under fair and reliable circumstances form the basis for reporting using the NRS. They comprise statements about achievement in terms of reading, writing, oral communication, numeracy and learning strategies.

	Copies letters of the alphabet, numbers, and dates in order to convey personal details such as name, address, telephone number.
	Writes basic personal details about self or others such as name, address and signature.
	Writes one or two phrases/simple sentences conveying an idea, message or opinion drawing from a modelled text.

	Writes about a familiar topic using simple sentence structure and joining ideas through conjunctive links where appropriate.
	Completes forms or writes notes using factual or personal information relating to familiar contexts.

	Communicates relationships between ideas through selecting and using grammatical structures and notations which are appropriate to the purpose.
	Produces and sequences paragraphs according to purpose of text.

	Communicates complex relationships between ideas and matches style of writing to purpose and audience.
	Generates written texts reflecting a range of genres and using appropriate structure and layout.

	Demonstrates well developed writing skills by selecting stylistic devices to express complex relationships between ideas and purposes.
	Generates complex written texts with control over generic structure.

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