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
Tabela de Conteúdo
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?
Sobre o autor
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.