• You still need a lot of support to write short sentences using the basic vocabulary. 

Example: a concrete familiar example about a know subject is given. For example ‘the zoo’. Students can make a word web about the subject and describe their basic knowledge in short sentences.

• Zoos are fun
• Animals are kept in cages
• Animals are fed

Example: Student writes down two lists:

pro	against
animals are fed	animals are locked in cages
animals don't get hurt	animals are taken away from nature
nice to see different Animals	animals are bored in the zoo

• You use pre-defined structures to guide you to form your own opinion.

I think that ……….

I have some reasons for this.

My first reason is …

My last reason is …..

Although ……

I think I have shown ………………

• You can provide your opinion in a guided manner with help of tools (peers, dictionary, teacher, framework).

Example: the students are given a subject and with help of opinion words/phrases, they write shortly their opinion about the subject.
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• With guidance, you are able to describe thoughts and experiences in your texts

Example: The teacher helps to shape the opinion, by having group discussion and handing more information about the subject

• Activating previous knowledge/organizing prior experience
• Offering new experience/establishing purposes
• Establishing purposes/formulating questions
  • Why, what, when, how, where
• Discussing and planning/locating information
• Study skills/adopting an appropriate strategy
• Interacting with text/retrieval devices/making record
• Reformulating and reflecting/communicating information

• You are able to tell and explain ideas and experiences in your text.

Example: Same steps can be followed, but without help of the teacher

• You are able to describe and explain ideas and experiences in your texts, while reflecting and commenting on your own and others' texts.

Example: writing commentary to argumentative text of peers, with well-founded counter-arguments.