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Assessing Children's Writing
A best practice guide for primary teaching
First Edition
- Kate Allott - York St John University, UK
Series:
Exploring the Primary Curriculum
Exploring the Primary Curriculum
February 2019 | 184 pages | Learning Matters
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
- 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
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?
Really useful for assessing different types of writing and also for suggestions for how to support children.
School of Education, Roehampton University
March 2, 2020
