A model that describes the ferrite-to-austenite transformation during continuous heating in ARMCO iron and three very low carbon low manganese steels with a fully ferrite initial microstructure is presented in this work. This model allows to calculate the volume fraction of austenite and ferrite during transformation as a function of temperature and thus to know the austenite formation kinetics under non-isothermal conditions in full ferritic steels. Moreover, since dilatometric analysis is a technique very often employed to study phase transformations in steels, a second model, that describes the dilatometric behaviour of the steel and calculates the relative change in length which occurs during the ferrite-to-austenite transformation, has been also