Assessing children’s language skills in a fun way with a help of dictations. Dictation is the process of writing down what someone else has said. In my workshop I want to show the effective ways of using dictations. I often use them in my lessons. I use it to introduce a new structure, to present the first paragraph of a text, to revise learned vocabulary, to provide a summary of a reading or listening exercise and to provide practice in different areas of grammar. If dictation is carefully linked to the learned materials, pupils will probably enjoy it.“Picture dictation”, “Spelling dictation” and other types of dictations help to assess learners’ writing, listening, speaking and reading skills and raise motivation.