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Sample Answers For Non-Fiction Writing - Technology

This document provides sample student responses to writing prompts about technology for a Year 7 non-fiction writing test, along with annotations about the content, structure, ideas, spelling, punctuation and grammar in each response. The first prompt asks students to write a speech persuading the school to provide tablets instead of books. The second prompt asks students to write a guest column for the school website about how they use technology in their everyday life. Each response is analyzed according to the marking scheme, with example scores provided.

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Sample Answers For Non-Fiction Writing - Technology

This document provides sample student responses to writing prompts about technology for a Year 7 non-fiction writing test, along with annotations about the content, structure, ideas, spelling, punctuation and grammar in each response. The first prompt asks students to write a speech persuading the school to provide tablets instead of books. The second prompt asks students to write a guest column for the school website about how they use technology in their everyday life. Each response is analyzed according to the marking scheme, with example scores provided.

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004 Year 7 Non-Fiction Writing Test

Technology - Sample Answers


The following responses are short examples in response to the task titled 004 Year 7 Non-
Fiction Writing Test Technology. The short examples are indicative of the content expected
in each task, yet are not indicative of the expected quantity of work for the full tasks.
1a. Write a speech to persuade the rest of the school, including the staff, that pupils should
be provided with a tablet to use in lessons instead of books.

Annotated Sample Response

Content, Structure and Ideas Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Reader fully It cannot be denied that during covid Spelling accurate,


engaged with including some
lockdown, technology was a great
emotive tone. complex words.
lifeline to many of us.
With no access to our classrooms,
Clearly structured face-to-face teaching, and all of our Punctuation
writing; more accurate and subtly
educational resources locked away
effective discourse adds meaning and
markers needed. in school, many of us were at risk of effectiveness to
having no education at all. the text.

Technology crashed through all of


Begins to introduce those potential barriers to our learning
original ideas. Accurate, some
and allowed us access to teaching and sophisticated
home learning that we might have been and, effective
deprived of. word choices.
Some ideas are
starting to be But I am here today to pose the
developed. following important questions: was all
of that access fair and equal for each
and every student? What gaps in our
progress were widened by the type
of technology we had access to, the
amount of technology we had access
to, and whether every single one of us
in school really did have any access to
technology at all?
A student survey conducted recently
within our school revealed some equally
surprising and worrying results.

Using the mark scheme, the following marks could be considered for a full response at a
similar level:
Content, Structure and Ideas: 13
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar: 8

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004 Year 7 Non-Fiction Writing Test Technology - Sample Answers

1b. You have been asked to write a guest column on the school website. Your title is ‘How I
Use Technology in My Everyday Life.’ You will need to explain:
• what type of technology you use (mobile phone, tablet, laptop, PC, smart watch, fitness
monitor - anything you can think of);
• how your life is easier/better by using technology;
• what your favourite piece of technology is.

Annotated Sample Response

Content, Structure and Ideas Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Mostly engages the From my mobile phone, to the Spelling accurate,


reader with chatty computers at school, to my tablet at including common
tone and style. words and a few
home, and my new smart watch, it is complex words.
easy to see that technology is a very
Clearly structured big part of my life. I am certain that
writing linking I am not the only young person in Punctuation
paragraphs together school to say this. correct and aids
clearly. understanding. A
I would say that even ten years ago, wider variety would
I would have been in the minority need to be used
Introduces original throughout response.
of students with such access to
ideas that could
technology on a daily basis, but
be relatable for
the reader. society now has moved so far Some adventurous
forward that a young person like me vocabulary, but
using technology so much on a daily needs to be more
Ideas starting to basis is now normal.. ambitious.
be developed.
These would need All of the technology that I use on a
to be further daily basis makes my life much better
developed in the and makes the things that I do every
rest of the response.
day much easier. The technology
that I use at home meant that during
covid lockdowns when we did home
learning, I was able to access all of
the live lessons and all of the work
set by my teachers. Without that
technology, I don’t know how that
would have been possible.

Using the mark scheme, the following marks could be considered


for a full response at a similar level:
Content, Structure and Ideas: 10
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar: 6

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