Criteria for evaluating written products in grade 10

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  All content is relevant to the task.
  
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  The register completely corresponds to the
  

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  All content points are fully addressed and developed in a balanced way.
  
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  *Such misuse of register
  

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  Uses a wide range of connectors
  
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  Uses
  

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  The format is appropriate.
  

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  Uses a range of advanced vocabulary appropriately; uses less common lexical items with
  

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  Has good control of word formation;
  

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  Spells common vocabulary items correctly; very few (one or two) occasional spelling mistakes may be present.
  
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  May occasionally misspell less
  

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  Errors in word choice and/or spelling do not
  

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  Writes simple and compound sentence forms correctly and demonstrates variety in
  

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  Uses complex sentences accurately,
  
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  Rare errors in grammar and/or punctuation.
  

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  All content is relevant to the task; insignificant content omissions may be
  

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  The register on the whole corresponds to the
  

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  Most content points are
  
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  addressed, but their development may be
  

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  Uses a
  

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  Uses
  

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  around one idea or a set of like
  

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  The format is
  

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  Uses a range of everyday vocabulary appropriately; uses less common lexical items but may make frequent errors.
  
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  Has good control of word formation; may make errors in producing less
  

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  Spells common vocabulary
  
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  items correctly; few (no more than five) occasional spellingmistakes may be present.
  
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  May often misspell less common lexical items.
  
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  Errors in word choice and/or
  
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  spelling do not distort meaning.
  

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  Writes simple and compound sentence forms correctly but
  

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  Occasional errors in grammar and/or punctuation do not distort meaning.
  

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  Most content is relevant to the task; insignificant content omissions may be present.
  
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  The register on the whole corresponds to the requirements of the task.
  
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  Most content points are addressed, but some content points may be more fully covered than others.
  

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  Uses a range of basic connectors accurately.
  
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  Uses
  

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  The format is generally
  

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  Uses everyday vocabulary generally appropriately, while occasionally overusing certain lexical items.
  
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  Has good control of word formation; can produce common word forms correctly.
  
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  May make infrequent errors in spelling more difficult words.
  
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  Errors in word choice and/or spelling rarely distort meaning.
  

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  Writes simple and some compound sentence forms correctly.
  
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  While errors in grammar and/or punctuation are noticeable, meaning is rarely distorted.
  

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  Some content is relevant to the task; significant content omissions may be present.
  
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  The register barely corresponds to the requirements of the task.
  
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  Only some content points, which are minimally addressed.
  

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  Uses some basic connectors, but these
  

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  Writes in paragraphs, but may not use them to separate ideas (a
  

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  The format
  

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  Uses basic vocabulary reasonably appropriately.
  
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  Has some control of word formation; can produce some common word forms correctly.
  
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  Makes frequent errors in spelling more difficult words, but simple words are spelled correctly.
  
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  Errors in word choice and/or spelling distort meaning at
  
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  times.
  

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  Writes simple sentence forms mostly correctly.
  
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  Errors in grammar and/or punctuation may distort meaning at times.
  

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  Severe irrelevances and misinterpretati ons of the task may be
  

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  Only few content points, which
  
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  are minimally addressed.
  

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  May use a very limited range of basic cohesive devices, and those used
  

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  ideas.
  
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  Attempts to write in paragraphs, but their use may be
  

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  The format may be
  
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  inappropriate.
  

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  Uses an extremely limitedrange of vocabulary.
  
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  Has very limited control ofword formation; can produce a
  
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  few common word forms
  
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  correctly.
  
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  Makes many errors in spelling, including a range of simple words.
  
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  Errors in word choice and/or
  
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  spelling distort meaning.
  

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  Writes some simple sentenceforms correctly.
  
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  Frequent errors in grammar and/or punctuation distort meaning.
  

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  Attempts the task, but it is largely misinterpreted and the
  

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  Links are missing or incorrect.
  
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  Does not
  

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  The format is not
  

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  Can only use a few isolated words and/or memorisedphrases.
  
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  Has essentially no control of word formation; can barely produce any word forms.
  
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  Displays few examples of
  
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  conventional spelling.
  

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  No evidence of sentence forms.
  

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  Does not attempt the task in any way. OR
  
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  The response is completely irrelevant to the task. OR
  
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  There is too little language to assess. OR
  
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  Content is completely incomprehensible due to extremely poor handwriting: very few words are distinguishable, so there is a lack of context to verify meaning.