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2024 ICAS Assessments - Writing NZL
Year 4
Writing
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Year 5
Writing
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Year 5
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Year 6
Writing
Year 6
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Year 7
Writing
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Year 8
Writing
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Year 9
Writing
Year 9
Year 9
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Year 10
Writing
Year 10
Year 10
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Year 11
Writing
Year 11
Year 11
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Year 12
Writing
Year 12
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Year 13
Writing
Year 13
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Skill Areas
Students are assessed in the following skill areas:
- Text purpose and structure
- Language choices that enhance the writing
- Syntax and grammar
- Punctuation
Content
One of two forms of writing, narrative or persuasive, are assessed.
For persuasive writing
The task requires students to write a text that persuades, for example:
- a review
- an advertisement
- a formal argument
- an opinion piece for a newspaper
- a campaign manifesto
For a narrative
The task requires students to write one or two of the following aspects or stages of a narrative:
- the beginning of a narrative
- the complication or event in a narrative
- a description of a setting
- a description of a character
- the conclusion of a narrative