Kate Allott 
Assessing Children′s Writing [PDF ebook] 
A best practice guide for primary teaching

This book supports teachers and trainee teachers with the assessment of writing, and particularly assessment as part of the cycle of planning and teaching – assessment used formatively.



– Explores the issues and challenges in the assessment of writing

– Highlights the importance of specific feedback

– Features examples of children′s work and detailed guidance on how to assess each piece

– Includes a chapter on supporting children to write more outside of school

Table of Content

Becoming a writer

Early writing development

Fiction

Non-fiction writing

Poetry

Sentence level aspects of writing – sentence variation

Vocabulary choice

Punctuation

Spelling

Handwriting

Writing at home

The curriculum and statutory assessment

Conclusion: where next with the assessment of writing?

About the author

Kate Allott is Senior Lecturer in Education at York St John University. Kate worked as a literacy consultant in a local authority from the inception of the National Literacy Strategy. More recently she spent two years as a regional adviser with the Primary National Strategy, working on the Communication, Language and Literacy Development initiative.