Hello Y10

It's the Controlled Assessment next week. You're well prepared for this and have all the help you need in your draft books. Look through your article, which should be fully drafted by now, and check it against the your success criteria, your targets and the Assessment Objectives.

Remember, you're marked for your communication (purpose, genre & rhetoric), organisation (discourse markers, paragraph links) and SENTENCE STRUCTURE. Ensure you have a range of sentences as your marks are weighted towards this.

I recommend that you look at the games here, particularly the newspaper article. It's quite basic, but it's good cement understanding. It's not a children's' game either.

Look at the first one (don't bother with the second) here for advice on semi-colons. There is more information here. There is even a semi-colon game for some light relief.

Everything you need is in your draft books; try to remember as much as you can!

Ms Caldwell