CLA WRITTEN

Question 1

Ferrero and Teberosky

Answer 1

Environmental print is everywhere so reading is not first learnt at school

Question 2

Perrera

Answer 2

Non-chronological texts are more difficult to understand as they rely on logical connections

Question 3

Kress

Answer 3

Understanding the way children create meaning is fundamental to how their language develops; speech is acquired first

Question 4

Kroll

Answer 4

Stages of Children’s development:
preparation: basic motor skills and some principles of spelling
consolidation: writing similar to spoken language
differentiation: more purpose in writing which is separate from speech
integration: personal voice in writing, appropriate linguistic choices

Question 5

Rothery

Answer 5

Categories of evaluating children’s writing:
observation: a statement
recount: chronological sequence of events through orientation, event and reorientation
report: factual and objective descriptive of events nonchronologically
narrative: orientation-complication-resolution-coda

Question 6

Britton

Answer 6

Modes of children’s writing:
expressive: resembles writing
poetic: crafting and shaping language
transactional: formal and more academic style, creating a detached tone in third person

Question 7

Gentry

Answer 7

Five stages of spelling development:
prephonemic: pseudowriting
semi-phonetic: evident links between words and meaning, recognition of some sounds and letters
phonetic: more legible words but still a lot of errors and omissions, mostly phonetic spelling
transitional: phonetic spelling with some reasoning behind it
conventional: mostly correct

Question 8

Emergent reading and writing

Answer 8

mimics real reading and writing

Question 9

Ascender and descender

Answer 9

typological features where a portion of the letter either goes above or below the baseline

Question 10

Things a child must understand before learning how to read

Answer 10

Cohesion: how a whole story ties togeher
Cultural peculiarities: lineation and directionality
Organisational structure: chapters, headings and so on
Grapheme-phoneme relationship

Question 11

Stages of writing

Answer 11

Drawing, letter-like forms, copied letters, child’s name and string of letters, words, sentences, text

Question 12

Spelling errors

Answer 12

Insertion, omission, subsitution, transposition, phonetic spelling, overgeneralization of spelling rules and salient sounds

Question 13

How reading can be made easier for children

Answer 13

Using vocal cues
Repeating vocative
Asking questions
Stating differences between author and other characters
Giving knowledges of different conventions of written texts
Use finger to guide while reading