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
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?
