School Discourse: Learning to Write Across the Years of Schooling

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Contents

1 A Functional Approach to Writing Development
1
2 Writing Stories in Subject English
30
3 Writing to Respond to and Evaluate Other Texts
58
Recording and Describing Historical Events
86
Interpreting Explaining Arguing and Debating Historical Events
114
6 Observing and Writing about the Natural World
149
7 Interpreting Phenomena of the Natural World
182
8 The Developmental Trajectory in Writing
212
References
245
Index
257
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About the author (2010)

Frances Christie is Emeritus Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne, Australiaand Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Beverly Derewianka is Professor of Language Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia.

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