Communicates clearly in sound basic sentences, beginning to adopt a viewpoint and establish a clear purpose.
Pupils who are developing writers are beginning to write with a sense of audience and purpose. They are beginning to establish a viewpoint and maintain it in their writing for some of the time. There is an attempt to sequence ideas or material logically.
Pupils write mainly in simple sentences with and, but, then and so as the most common connectives. Some straightforward sentences are demarcated accurately with full stops, capital letters and question marks.
In most writing, pupils use simple, generally appropriate vocabulary.