
Assessing Children's Writing
A best practice guide for primary teaching
Kate Allott(Author)
Learning Matters Ltd (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2019
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-1-5264-4473-8 (ISBN)
Description
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
More details
Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
507 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5264-4473-8 (9781526444738)
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Person
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.
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?
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?