Provides a common writing assessment tool for teachers, schools or districts. Supports identification of student strengths, needs, interests and attitudes in writing. Includes task-specific rubrics and levelled anchors to ensure consistent assessment of writing skills (based on the Ontario curriculum). Provides valuable "next steps" for targeting instruction. Supports tracking student progress over time with tracking sheets.

An introduction to Ontario writing assessment (OWA) -- OWA components -- OWA writing tasks -- Writing task 1. Start of the year -- Writing task 2. Mid-year -- Writing task 3. End of year --How OWA can help your writing program succeed -- Next steps for teaching writing -- Next steps for leadership.