Developing Writers Across the Primary and Secondary Years

Honglin Chen is an Associate Professor in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and Language Education at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research focuses primarily on three interconnected areas in language and literacy education, including writing development, English curriculum and policy, and teacher knowledge and pedagogy. Debra Myhill is Professor of Education at the University of Exeter, and Director of the Centre for Research in Writing. Her research interests focus principally on aspects of language and literacy teaching, particularly linguistic and metalinguistic aspects of writing, and the composing processes involved in writing. Helen Lewis is a researcher and sessional lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research interest centers around literacy development at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, and pedagogic practices that support the development.

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Foreword

Chapter 1: Developing Writers in Primary and Secondary School Years Debra Myhill and Honglin Chen

Part I: Writing in the Early Years: Fostering Emergent Writers

Chapter 2: Children Learning About Writing in the Early Primary Years Classrooms Lisa Kervin, Barbara Comber and Annette Woods

Chapter 3: Writing Before School: The Role of Families in Supporting Children’s Early Writing Development Cathy Nutbrown

Chapter 4: Bringing More Than A Century of Practice to Writing Pedagogy in the Early Years Susan Feez

Chapter 5: Teaching Writing in Digital Times: Stories from the Early Years Clare Dowdall

Part II: Writing in the Primary Years: Supporting Social, Linguistic and Cognitive Development

Chapter 6: Developing Textual Competence: Primary Students’ Mastery of Noun Groups in Two Factual Text Types Helen Lewis

Chapter 7: Apprenticing Authors: Nurturing Children’s Identities as Writers Teresa Cremin

Chapter 8: Developing Confident Writers: Fostering Audience Awareness in Primary School Writing Classrooms Honglin Chen and Emma Rutherford Vale

Chapter 9: A Pedagogy of Empowerment: Enabling Primary School Writers to Make Meaningful Linguistic Choices Susan Jones

Part III: Writing in the Secondary Years: Growing into Complexity

Chapter 10: Writing their Futures: Students’ Stories of Development and Difference Erika Matruglio And Pauline Jones

Chapter 11: Wordsmiths and Sentence-Shapers: Linguistic and Metalinguistic Development in Secondary Writers Debra Myhill

Chapter 12: Growing into the Complexity of Mature Academic Writing Beverly Derewianka

Chapter 13: Articulating Authorial Intentions: Making Meaningful Connections Between Reading and Writing in the Secondary Classroom Helen Lines

Index