Year 6 Writing Examples
In this page, you will find some examples of what is expected of Year 6 writers who are meeting all the age-related requirements. SCROLL DOWN to find out what to expect from your children and some of the reasons why this is expected at Year 6. All the examples below are from "extended writing" sessions, which are generally over two lessons and are completed independently having spent previous lessons building up and practising writing skills.
Why is this writing at the age-related expectation (ARE) for the end of Year 6?
- Almost entirely grammatically correct, allowing for occasional punctuation and spelling errors.
- Capitals, full stops, commas, apostrophes and question marks are all mostly accurate.
- Uses the full range of punctuation to include evidence of dashes, brackets, hyphens, semi-colons and colons.
- Writing structure, formality and purpose should be clearly met. For example, the tone and layout of a newspaper should be clearly different to a narrative or a set of instructions.
- Handwriting should be neat, joined and legible.
- Correct tense throughout.
- A range of multi-clause sentences, including some thought into when you would use shorter or longer sentences. This is why children learn about grammar skills, such as: fronted adverbials, relative clauses, subordinate clauses, rhetorical questions and so on.
- A range of devices to create flow in the writing.
- Evidence that they have checked, improved and/or corrected their writing and spelling.
As part of the writing cycle it is important for children to organise and structure their writing correctly. By planning effectively the children know how the writing will look in the final piece. Another very important area is the editing phase. Children look at their writing with a view of the person reading their work and think about adding detail or changing sentences to add emphasis and description. Below are some examples of written work this year and you can see the planning/editing and publishing phase.
Examples of the Planning and Drafting phase of writing. Followed by the final published writing.
Below is what "greater depth" writing may look like halfway through the year. Note the additional flair to the sentences, improved spelling and more consistent, challenging punctuation.
Moving towards Greater depth writing halfway through the year
