Abstract
Governmental concerns about primary children's performance in writing in the Standard Assessment Tasks (SATs) have resulted in the ‘Grammar for Writing’ Initiative. This resource and the associated in-service training is intended to raise standards in the teaching of writing. The article reviews SATs reports, inspection reports and research evidence in order to address the question: to what extent can this development be justified by empirical evidence on the teaching of grammar? It is concluded that the initiative is not supported by research evidence and that changes will need to be made to English curriculum policy and pedagogy if children's writing is to further improve.
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