Assessing Children's Writing

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?