WRITING
FRAMEWORK FOR HOW TO TALK ABOUT A CHILD'S WRITING:
- Pragmatics
- Lexis
- Grammar
- Graphology
- Spelling
Motor skills - what a child can physically do
Cognitive function - knowledge
- ascending and descending letters (p, d) - motor skills
- words with silent letters
- homophones
- punctuation and capital letters
- over use of 'and'
- keeping words level - motor skills
Kroll's writing stages:
Preparatory stage (4-7)
Consolidation stage (7-9)
Differentiation stage (9+)
Integration stage (14+)
- basic motor skills
- simple spelling
Consolidation stage (7-9)
- express what they can say in speech
- clauses linked by 'and'
- unfinished sentences
Differentiation stage (9+)
- writing for different audiences/purposes
- draft/revise/edit
Integration stage (14+)
- stylistic choices
- personal 'voice'
Rothery: Catagorising texts
- Observation and Comment
- Observation
- Recount - chronological sequence of events orientation/event/reorientation
- Report - general classification/description
- Narrative - orientation/complication/resolution/coda
Barclay seven stages of writing
- Scribbling
- Mock handwriting
- Mock letters
- Conventional letters
- Invented spelling
- Approximated/phonemic spelling
- Conventional spelling
Functions of writing:
- practical
- job related
- stimulating
- social
- theraputic