• You use the letters of your heritage language and follow rules of punctuation.

Example: Write a text message to your teacher in which you explain why you will not come to the heritage language lesson.

• You write in your heritage language hand but the text is difficult to read.

Example: Write a short poem. e.g. Dutch children write a poem for their Sinterklaas surprise. Or you write a Haiku or Limerick or any traditional form of writing that is common in the heritage culture. 

• You write understandable/readable texts by hand and you practise the use of the keyboard in your heritage language.

Example: Write a short story by hand, after reading it through and correcting it make it into a word file and email it to the teacher.

• You write fluently and clearly by hand and you have adopted some of the necessary keyboard skills.

Example: Write a news article about something that happened last week. Edit this in a word program so that is has the format of a real news article. Produce a newspaper together with the class, adding all articles together and add relevant pictures and headlines. newspaper template

• You are able to plan the writing process of a genre and are able to recognise different genres.

Example: the teaches gives a subject. All students can choose their own genre and write a text about this subject. Afterwards they have to categorise the text of the other students in the right genres, and tell why it belongs to that genres and which points could be improved to better suit the genre. 

• You can uses different skills in writing to produce different genres of text.

Example: Change one genre into another ‘genre blurring’…

• a poem into a narrative story
• A fairy tail into a news article
• A science book into a comic