Prepare compositions (including essays), reports, presentations, and inquiry or research projects with adequate detail for audience understanding.

Experiment with and use memorable language effectively.

Experiment with different personas.

Seek out teachers, peers, and others with specific strengths for writing conferences.

Design and publish documents by using publishing software and graphics programs.

Write clear and focused narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive essays (at least 1,500 words).

Write response to texts to demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of the significant ideas of literary texts and support important ideas and viewpoints through accurate and detailed references to the text, and demonstrate awareness of the author's use of language.

Apply knowledge and strategies for composing pieces in a variety of forms/genres (e.g., descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive, poetic, script).

Write texts that relate clear ideas or events in a coherent manner using specific details.

Create narrative texts (e.g., personal narrative, short story) as follows:

• locate scenes and incidents in specific places
• describe with concrete sensory details the sights, sounds, and smells of the scene and the specific actions, movements, and feelings of the characters (use interior monologue to depict characters' feelings)
• employ narrative and descriptive devices (e.g., relevant dialogue, specific action, physical description, comparison or contrast)
• develop narrative systematically leading to a climax or conclusion
• reveal the significance of and the subject's attitude about the incident, event, or situation.

Create expository, informational, and procedural texts (e.g., a research report, a consumer letter) as follows:

• pose relevant questions to limit scope of presentation
• introduce the purpose and define a thesis
• develop topic with important facts, details, examples, and explanations from multiple authoritative sources
• include several paragraphs or sections organized in logical sequences
• use transitions
• organize and display information on charts, maps, and graphs
• offer conclusion(s)
• anticipate and address viewer's, listener's and reader's potential misunderstandings, biases, and expectations.

Create descriptive texts (a profile of a character) as follows:

• present a clear and colourful picture of the person
• include sensory details and vivid words
• use dialogue when appropriate
• develop a logical order (e.g., background, physical description).

Create persuasive texts (e.g., a persuasive essay, a letter to the editor) as follows:

• include a well-defined thesis (i.e., one that makes a clear and knowledgeable judgement)
• state a position clearly and convincingly
• provide support by fact, reasons, examples, explanations, and evidence to support position
• differentiate fact from opinion and support argument with detailed reasoning and examples
• structure ideas and arguments in a sustained and logical fashion
• maintain a reasonable tone
• address viewer's, listener's, or reader's concerns, biases, expectations, and counterclaims.

Experiment with a variety of forms (e.g., poetry, letters, short scripts, advice column) and techniques (e.g., tone, point of view, imagery, dialogue, figurative language).