Learning to Write

This classic text poses two questions: what is it that a child learns when s/he learns to write? What can we learn about children, society and ourselves by looking at this process? This book is based on close analysis of children's writing.

List of contents

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;

About the author

Gunther Kress

Summary

This classic text poses two questions: what is it that a child learns when s/he learns to write? What can we learn about children, society and ourselves by looking at this process? This book is based on close analysis of children's writing.

Product details

• Authors: Gunther Kress, Kress Gunther
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2016
• EAN: 9781138146297
• ISBN: 978-1-138-14629-7
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Teaching of a specific subject, Primary and middle schools, Literacy (Theories of reading and writing)