Reading Children's Writing: A Linguistic View

While many books of the time explored pedagogical, psychological, and linguistics perspectives of children’s writing, Reading Children’s Writing (originally published in 1986) takes a fresh and innovative approach by examining text-organizational methods of analysis.

The book considers ‘whole texts’ produced by children of either top junior or lower secondary age—a time of transition which involves them in significant changes of writing styles. Here the authors consider the organizational fe...