Descriptive writing Vocabulary + A_A_ grade sample answers

Descriptive writing Vocabulary + A/A* grade sample answers

Assessment Tasks: 1. Look at the mark scheme on the following page and pick out the most significant and important words.

(You can only choose 5.)

2. If you had to create a list of three things to do in this piece of writing, what would those three things be?

Mark scheme (20 marks) Band 4

Band 4

11-14 marks

5-6 marks

• content is well-judged, sustained and pertinent, firmly engaging the reader’s interest

• there is appropriate and effective variation of sentence structures

• the writing is well-crafted in an appropriate form with distinctive structural or stylistic features • paragraphs are effectively varied in length and structure to control detail and progression • there is a sophisticated organisation of detailed content within and between paragraphs • a wide range of appropriate, ambitious vocabulary is used to create effect or convey precise meaning

• there is a sophisticated use of simple, compound and complex sentences to achieve particular effects • accurate punctuation is used to vary pace, clarify meaning, avoid ambiguity and create deliberate effects • virtually all spelling, including that of complex irregular words, is correct • tense changes are used confidently and purposefully

Task: Read through these 4 samples of A/A* grade writing 1. Write out all the words you don't understand, get a definition for them (dictionary.com) and write them in your vocab document.

2. What are the elements that make these A/A* answers?

3. Pick out at least 5 examples of descriptive writing you like from these four answers and post them here. (No longer than a sentence) 4. What have you learned from these that you can use in your own work?

Now continue with your own answer Remember: 1. The mark scheme and what you are being asked to do.

2. Increase your vocabulary.

3. sustain the readers interest.