Audience
The writer's capacity to orient, engage and affect the reader.0–6
Text structure
The organisation of narrative features including orientation, complication and resolution into an appropriate and effective text structure.0–4
Ideas
The creation, selection and crafting of ideas for a narrative.0–5
Character and setting
Character: the portrayal and development of character. Setting: the development of a sense of place, time and atmosphere.0–4
Vocabulary
The range and precision of language choices.0–5
Cohesion
The control of multiple threads and relationships over the whole text, achieved through the use of referring words, substitutions, word associations and text connectives.0–4
Paragraphing
The segmenting of text into paragraphs that assists the reader to negotiate the narrative.0–3
Sentence structure
The production of grammatically correct, structurally sound and meaningful sentences.0–6
Punctuation
The use of correct and appropriate punctuation to aid reading of the text.0–5
Spelling
The accuracy of spelling and the difficulty of the words used.0–6