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Year 8 Writing Assessment

Answer each question. For the writing tasks, use the prompts and techniques provided. Check your spelling, punctuation and sentence structure.

Language and Grammar

Show that you can recognise and use punctuation, descriptive language and correct verb forms.

1.Choose the sentence with correct punctuation.

"Have you seen my jacket" asked Losa.
"Have you seen my jacket?" asked Losa.
"Have you seen my jacket," asked Losa?

2.Select both sentences that use descriptive language.

A golden light spilled across the quiet harbour.
We packed our bags before breakfast.
The wind howled through the narrow street.
Her shoes were beside the door.

3.Complete the sentence with the correct verb form: Last Saturday, Hana ___ her cousins at the park.

meet
met
meeting

4.Rewrite this sentence with apostrophes in the correct places: One teachers car was parked beside Anas bicycle.

Creative Writing

Write an engaging narrative with a clear beginning, development and ending. Use descriptive details and check your writing as you go.

5.Choose one prompt and write a narrative of about 150–200 words. Prompt A: A foggy morning on the coast reveals a trail of footprints leading away from the water. Prompt B: During a power cut, a familiar voice comes from the empty room upstairs. Prompt C: A parcel arrives with a note asking you to return it to a place you have never visited.

6.Rewrite this sentence to make it more descriptive: “The rabbit crossed the garden.”

Extension: Descriptive Writing

Try the challenge if you are ready to use a range of literary techniques.

7.Write a descriptive paragraph of about 100 words about a thunderstorm. Include at least three techniques from this list: metaphor, personification, alliteration, simile and onomatopoeia.

8.Read this sample thunderstorm paragraph. Identify three literary techniques and quote an example of each: “The storm was a restless giant crouching above the hills. Dark clouds crowded together, dragging a grey curtain across the sky. Without warning, lightning split the clouds like a bright, jagged blade. KRAK! Thunder rolled over the rooftops, rattling windows and sending a flock of birds fluttering for cover. Rain drummed on the shed roof, then hammered the ground until the garden paths shone. The wind grabbed at the trees, shaking their branches as if it wanted to pull them free. For a moment the whole world seemed to hold its breath. Then the thunder rumbled away towards the sea, and the first pale patch of sunlight appeared.”