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6. Which is the order of Cathy Barclay's 7 Stage Theory?

  • 1 - Scribbling 2 - Mock Handwriting 3 - Mock Letters 4 - Conventional Letters 5 - Inventive Spelling 6 - Phonetic Spelling 7 - Correct Spelling
  • 1 - Scribbling 2 - Mock Letters 3 - Conventional Letters 4 - Mock Handwriting 5 - Phonetic Spelling 6 - Inventive Spelling 7 - Correct
  • 1 - Mock Handwriting 2 - Scribbling 3 - Mock Letters 4 - Inventive spelling 5 -Conventional Letters 6 - Phonetic 7 - Correct
  • 1 - Inventive 2 - Conventional 3 - Scribbling 4 - Mock Letters 5 - Mock Handwriting 6 - Phonetic Spelling 7 - Correct

7. What does Cathy Barclay's Mock Handwriting Stage consist of?

  • Child spells words in their own way
  • Scribbles
  • Writing and drawings
  • Name written as first word

8. What is Cathy Barclay's 5th stage of children's writing?

  • Inventive spelling
  • Mock Letters
  • Phonetic Spelling
  • Conventional Letters

9. In Rothery's Categories, which decribes the 'Report' funtion?

  • Able to spell most words correctly.
  • Includes features that sign post ideas.
  • Factual & objective description of evennts. Usually not chronological.
  • Usually a chronological sequence of events , written subjectively.

10. In Britton's theory what does the 'Expressive' feature mean?

  • Factual and objective description of events.
  • Uses rhyme, rhythm, adjectives and similes.
  • Usually resembles speech, often written with a first person perspective.
  • Impersonal style and tone with formal sentence structure.

11. What is included in Rothery's 'Observation/ Comment' theory?

  • Writer maes observations and follows with an evaluative comment, or mixes with an observation
  • Essay style and impersonal tone with formal sentence structure.
  • Usually chronological sequence of events.
  • More difficult to write, baased on connectionss between ideas.

12. What is Cathy Barclay's 3rd stage of children's writing?

  • Inventive Spelling
  • Phonetic Spelling
  • Mock Letters
  • Convential Letters

13. Which feature, within Britton's theory, is usually used in secondary school due to its essay styled structure?

  • Poetic
  • Observation
  • Transactional
  • Expressive