Cayman Islands Writing Exemplar

AF6: 

Conventions

 – Write with technical accuracy of syntax and punctuation in phrases,  

clauses and sentences

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The author correctly uses fullstops , exclamation marks, or question marks at the end of each sentence and 

where appropriate. 

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The author consistently begins all sentences with capital letters and uses a capital “I” in all instances. The author 

also uses capital letters for most proper nouns (e.g., “Grand Cayman” and “December”) but not yet for acronyms.  

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The author uses a comma in a short list of adjectives.

AF7: 

Word Choice

 – Select appropriate and effective vocabulary

•  The author uses a variety of simple, basic adjectives (e.g., “nice,” “great,” and “amazing”); however, the author 

has yet to experiment with more interesting descriptive words. Adding more adjectives would improve the piece. 

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The author includes a variety of action verbs (e.g., “walked,” “talked,” “learned,” and “went”). 

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The author relies on simple vocabulary to express his/her ideas and adventurous word choices are lacking in the 

text.