This resource provdies assessment materials for benchmarking and diagnostic testing students in the beginning of the year and monitoring their progress throughout the year with the skills explicitly taught in The Writing Revolution.
This LINK will provide a number of valuable assessment tools for The Writing Revolution. You will need to create a free account to access these tools.
You may also find this paper on Teaching and Assessing Student Writing: A Guide for Teachers of All Subjects (adapted from The Writing Revolution) interesting.
Note: Level 1 refers to the elementary grades (Grades 3-6), and secondary grades refers to Grades 7-12; & those in younger grades can complete similar activities, but orally.
The diagnostic assessments start to if students can complete sentence-level activities, and write effective paragraphs. They will help you determine which skills your students have, and which need to be developed.
Chapter 9 :A Gauge & a Guide: Assessing Students' Writing is suggested reading. (p. 204)
