Group Discussion: Preworkshop tasks Week 4

Group Leader Week 4: Emma


Activity #2 from Winch  p269
Read the extract below:


Form and content:

• The child is recounting her experiences of the circus in a journalistic manner. It is loosely a narrative as it still maintains some  narrative features.

Text Encoding:

• Great spelling (only one error throughout).

• Lack of punctuation and capital use (no evident quotation marks, commas, capitals on proper nouns).

Text Participant:

• She was excited ("Oh terrific", 'it was good"). She displayed many emotions.
• She drew on her knowledge of the circus. There was not much knowledge evident besides what she saw whilst there.
• She knows that her writing needs to make sense to someone else, therefore she has to write in a way that conveys meaning in a conventional manner.

Text user:

• Expression of emotions:
• "oh terrific"
• "lets hurry"
• "good fun"
• "very funny"
• "circus was good"

•  Therefore, the overall tone of the text was excitement and joy as the child discusses her trip to the circus and the emotions that she feels. 
• Understands the genre of the text otherwise she would have not have been able to construct a recount.

Text analyst:

• Ideas to improve Kate's writing.
• Critical Literacy.
• View points.

***(focus on what children are doing instead of what they are not)***