Writes with increasing relevance and detail with a wider range of sentences and the ability to organise whole texts in straightforward ways.
Pupils who are securely established as competent writers can be relied upon to choose relevant content and to develop some aspects of it by adding detail. They establish a straightforward viewpoint and manage to maintain it with good consistency. The writing has clarity of purpose and the main features of the selected form are deployed appropriately, although there is still the possibility of some inconsistencies. The organising principles behind their writing will be simple but usually strong enough to link the openings and the endings.
Secure competent writers sometimes make conscious attempts to vary the length, structure and subject of sentences. Changes of verb tense are now managed without confusion. Complex sentences are used more frequently with the range of connectives that these require. The accuracy of sentence demarcation may decrease a little as sentences become longer and more varied in structure. There is emerging evidence that these writers are beginning to understand the use of commas to mark clause boundaries. Other punctuation such as speech marks and question marks is used.
Words are now sometimes chosen deliberately for impact and the vocabulary used may be extended beyond the everyday to incorporate specialist words linked to the subject matter.
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