Assessing Children's Writing

A best practice guide for primary teaching
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5264-4473-8
Verlag: Learning Matters

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

Reihe: Exploring the Primary Curriculum

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allott, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?

Über Autor(innen)

Allott, Kate
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.