Developing Writing for Different Purposes

Teaching about Genre in the Early Years

Jeni Riley, David Reedy

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2000
• ISBN:
  9781446264805
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Early Childhood Education

`Jeni Riley and David Reedy share excellent examples of how primary school children worked on a non-fiction text format.... A well-informed book with a welcome dose of humour? - Nursery World

`The theoretical underpinning to this volume is rigorous and the case studies are both endearing and informative? - Early Years

`One of the insights of social theories of language which is now taken for granted is that language varies as the social context varies? (Kress, 1997)

This is a book that operationalizes this insight: it charts young children?s early attempts to write as they struggle to communicate meaning for a variety of purposes. Each section deals with the appropriate research evidence on the development of children?s competence in literacy, and their growing awareness of genre, and uniquely, with a clear approach to teaching children from three to seven years. The text combines the necessary theoretical underpinning plus the day-to-day practical experience of working with young children in order to develop their understanding of the different forms and language of texts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - The Mysterious Process of Writing
• Chapter 2 - Developing an Awareness of Genre
• Chapter 3 - Teaching the Early Stages of Learning to Write
• Chapter 4 - From the First Marks to Writing for a Purpose
• Chapter 5 - Writing Narrative Fiction
• Chapter 6 - Writing Poetry
• Chapter 7 - Using a Range of Non-Fiction Genres in the Classroom
• Chapter 8 - Developing Control of the Argument/Persuasive Genre
• Chapter 9 - Assessing Children's Growing Control of Genre
• References
• Index