268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1982, this influential and classic text poses two questions: what is it that a child learns when he or she learns to write? What can we learn about children, society and ourselves, by looking at this process? The book is based on a close analysis of a series of written texts by primary school children and is written for student teachers with little or no knowledge of... Read more
Chapter 1 Learning to write; Chapter 2 Speech and writing; Chapter 3 Children's speech and children's writing; Chapter 4 The development of the concept of ‘sentence’ in children's writing; Chapter 5 Genre; Chapter 6 Linguistic and conceptual development: conjoined sentence structures; Chapter 7 The expression of causality in children's language, Gunther Kress, Michael Rowan; Chapter 8 ‘Errors’; Chapter 9 Questions in a social theory of literacy; Appendix List of texts; Bibliography; Index;
Biography
Gunther Kress
