Investigating Children's Writing

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  • Created on: 20-11-16 14:03

Text structure and cohesion

  • What kind of pattern or structure does the text follow?
  • How coherent is it?
  • Are there any connecting features?
  • Are there any common conventions?
  • Have they tried to avoid repetition?
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Mechanical and spatial control

  • To what extent is the direction and spacing of the text controlled?
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Letter formation

  • Are letter forms consistently produced correctly?
  • Are letters confused or reversed?
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Spelling

  • Phonemic-graphemic correspondences?
  • Do the 'mistakes' show creative guessing or overgeneralisation?
  • Are there patterns?
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Word selection

  • Examine the range, register and appropriateness of word choices
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Semantics

  • What meanings are being conveyed?
  • Abstract or concrete?
  • Actions?
  • Descriptions of objects?
  • People?
  • Feelings?
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Syntactic structures

  • Are there distinct sentences?
  • Compound?
  • Extended?
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Punctuation

  • Is there any?
  • What is it?
  • How does their use correspond with adult systems?
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Narrative and rhetorical methods

  • How far has the writer begun to craft the text?
  • Vivid or dramatic vocab?
  • Figurative language?
  • Awareness of reader?
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