Methods of Children's Writing - BRITTON

Question 1

In which year was this theory established?

Answer 1

1975

Question 2

1. Expressive

Answer 2

1st mode to develop - resembles speech, written in the 1st person

Question 3

2. Poetic

Answer 3

Develops gradually - requires skills in crafting and shaping language, phonological features such as rhyme and alliteration and descriptive features such as adjectives are common

Question 4

3. Transactional

Answer 4

Last mode to develop - more academic style, more impersonal and detached tone, formal sentence structures and graphological features (e.g. paragraphs)