Active Assessment in English

<p>Everybody seems to be talking about Assessment for Learning. This book shows you how to do it.</p><p>The thinking behind the highly influential ‘Assessment for Learning’ approach is translated into usable and practical strategies for all those teaching literacy in primary and secondary classrooms.</p><p>The authors show how thinking learning and assessment can be linked together in a creative and integrated fashion so that thinking promotes learning learning enables assessment to take place and assessment acts as a stimulus to both thinking and learning. </p><p>Concise teachers’ notes for a broad range of dynamic techniques explain for each:</p><ul> <li>what the approach is</li> <li>how you use it for assessment </li> <li>how you can manage it in the classroom</li> <li>how it helps with learning.</li> </ul><p>Downloadable resources are included with all of the activities and ideas that can be used on Interactive Whiteboards. <em>Active Assessment for English</em> will prove inspiring reading for all literacy teachers at primary and secondary levels LEA advisers and inspectors. </p>