Friday, 9 December 2016

Children's writing

Children's spelling



  • Doubling consonants – e.g. breezzy, dissappeared
  • Spell phonetically – e.g. ment, brite
  • Stressed and unstressed letters – knife = nife, stomach = tomach
  • Vowel combinations – i.e. ‘I comes before e’ e.g. coulourful
  • Suffixing and prefixing – e.g. living = liveing
  • Initial letter – e.g. England = Ingland
  • Insertion - adding extra letters 
  • Omission - leaving out letters
  • Substitution - substituting one letter for another
  • Transposition - reversing the order of letters in words
  • Phonetic spelling - spelling words according to the standard phonemes that graphemes make
  • Over/undergeneralising of spelling rules - applying or not applying rules in inappropriate contexts or one specific context
  • Salient (key) sounds - only including the key sounds


Cohesive features

  • Connectives
  • Punctuation – full stop, colon
  • Order of the text
  • Tenses used
  • Paragraphs
  • Headings, sub headings
  • Consistency of audience
  • Anaphoric references – referring to the past - last week
  • Cataphoric references – referring to future – later on
  • Continuity of style
  • Conventions followed
  • Structure
  • Illustrations
  • Layout
  • Consistency of sentence lengths


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