What is the point of a writer for a writing assessment?

[IndigoBell]

Grrrr. DD told me today that her class TA wrote for her in her writing assessment.

There is nothing wrong with her ability to write. She just can't spell. At all. I mean her writing is absolutely unreadable.

But now they are not assessing her ability to write - they're assessing her ability to speak! And then no doubt they'll tell me she's done really well in her assessment and made loads of progress this year.

If her writing is unreadable surely it's only fair that she stays at a level 1c.

I am not happy. They need to teach her to write not pretend that it doesn't matter and pretend she's making progress.

Ha mrz! I was just about to transcibe that passage too.
That level of writing doesn't need a scribe, but I too would get the child to "read" it back to me.

LizS - Yes, she's had an EP report. It says she is very bright. At school (and home) she is happy and confident.

Mrz - yes, I agree, a transcriber would have been fine. Because she would have still been practising writing. And they could have discussed one or two things she had done wrong in the piece. But she said 'Mrs X acted as my hands' - so she was definitely scribing not transcribing.

I transcribe her diary for her at night and find it works really well.

And yes, you are almost spot on with what she meant to write.

Sorry but I can't see any reason why a scribe would be used. Yes is is low level as you know but certainly not unreadable