Writing terminology, ideas and concepts - lesson 1 Flashcards
There are 11 things that children must learn to do before they are fluent writers.
The first one is to hold and control the pen.
What are the other ten?
- Correctly form the shape of letters, both upper and lower case
- Join up the writing (cursive writing)
- Select appropriate words
- Spell them using correct grapheme combinations
- Space words appropriately in the line/page
- Understand and apply principles of sentence construction
- Understand and apply the conventions of punctuation
- Plan sufficiently far ahead to construct coherent sentences and text
- Learn and use the forms and conventions for different genres
- Reading back to correct your own work
What is cursive writing?
Joined up handwriting
What is an ascender?
A grapheme where the upwards part of a letter exceeds the mean line of font such as l and k.
What is an descender?
A grapheme which has a portion of the letter going below the baseline, such as p and j.
What are Joan Rothery’s categories of genre?
Observation/comment, recount, report and narrative
What are the features of an observation/comment?
The writer makes an observation and will follow this with an evaluative comment or combines the two. “I saw a tiger” “It was very large” “I saw a very large tiger”.
What are the features of recounts?
Generally a chronological sequence of events. For example children are often asked to write a follow-up activity to a school trip. It is written subjectively. The structure of a recount follows this pattern – ORIENTATION – EVENT – REORIENTATION.
What are the features of reports?
A factual and objective description of events or things and doesn’t tend to be chronological.
What are the features of narratives?
A story genre which sets the scene for events to occur. It has a set pattern, ORIENTATION – COMPLICATION – RESOLUTION – CODA. Due to the structural complexity few children will achieve the whole structure early on even though they have read stories with this narrative structure.
