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 writerEarly writing developmentFictionNon-fiction writingPoetrySentence level aspects of writing – sentence variationVocabulary choicePunctuationSpellingHandwritingWriting at homeThe curriculum and statutory assessmentConclusion: where next with the assessment of writing?