Teaching and Assessing Writing in the Primary School

Eithne Kennedy is a teacher educator in the School of Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education (LLECE), DCU Institute of Education and leads the DCU Centre for Literacy Research, Policy and Practice. She is a former primary classroom teacher with 14 years’ classroom experience (K-12th Grade) in Ireland and the United States. As director of the Write to Read research initiative, she collaborates with schools designated as disadvantaged to create powerful literacy environments that motivate and engage children as readers, writers and thinkers. Gerry Shiel, formerly a Research Fellow at Educational Research Centre, Dublin, has overseen several large-scale assessments, including the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment and National Assessments of Reading Literacy and Mathematics. He has also been involved in the development of standardised tests in reading Literacy in English and Irish He continues to collaborate with Eithne Kennedy on the Write to Read Project.

Preface; 1 How Do Writers Write?; 2 Effective Writing Pedagogy; 3 Genre, Disciplinary Writing, Multi-modal Texts and Writing Development; 4 Curricula in Writing: The Intended, Implemented and Achieved; 5 Assessment of Writing; 6 Designing, Organising and Implementing a Writing Workshop; 7 Process Mini lessons: Generating, Planning and Drafting Writing Ideas across Genres; 8 Craft Mini lessons: Developing and Enhancing Writing Quality Across Genres; 9 Conventions Mini-lessons: Developing Accuracy in Writing Across Genres; 10 Process Mini-lessons: Evaluating, Revising and Publishing Writing across Genres; 11 Addressing the Needs of Diverse Writers; 12 Planning for Writing Across a School; Appendix A; Appendix B: