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.

This book provides the support that trainee and beginning teachers need to enable them to teach and assess writing. The book covers all the main aspects of writing, both compositional and transcriptional, including those where the National Curriculum has very little detail.

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?