Thoughts behind planning and implementation of writing instruction in primary school is influenced by the attitudes the teacher has to his/hers teaching. To view language and writing from different perspectives yields different results. This study aims to identify the type pedagogical approach that is reflected in the governing documents for the primery school. The study carried out through an extensive document analysis in which the discourses of writing were identified, focusing on approach to education, language and writing. The starting point of the analysis was five discourses on writing pedagogical approach, a skill discourse, a creativity discourse, a process discourse, a genre discourse and a social practice discourse. The results show that a few of the approaches were represented more then other´s in the governing documents, but that all the approaches, to some extent, can be found. Above all is a process-oriented approach, representative of the view of writing while a more general attitude to learning and teaching displays a creativity approach, the assessment is made to appear mainly on the basis of a skill approach. The result of the document analysis whas, as a secondary aim, compared with a smaller questionnaire survey and the result show that differences existed between survey responses. There are also differences in how prominent the different approaches are in the documents. In the discussion of the results, the relationship between the outcome and previous research is raised. There is also a comparison of selected points from the forthcoming, course plan draft that at the time of the study is in alteration.