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.

Really useful for assessing different types of writing and also for suggestions for how to support children.

• 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?