Developing Writing for Different Purposes: Teaching about Genre in the Early Years

`Jeni Riley and David Reedy share excellent examples of how primary school children worked on a non-fiction text format.... A well-informed book with a welcome dose of humour′ - Nursery World `One of the insights of social theories of language which is now taken for granted is that language varies as the social context varies′ (Kress, 1997) This is a book that operationalizes this insight: it charts young children′s early attempts to write as they struggle to communicate meaning for a variety of purposes. Each section deals with the appropriate research evidence on the development of children′s competence in literacy, and their growing awareness of genre, and uniquely, with a clear approa