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Assessing Children's Writing

A best practice guide for primary teaching
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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
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.
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?
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