Talking with Jess: Looking at how metalanguage assisted explanation writing in the middle years.

From: Australian Journal of Language and Literacy | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

21 May

I: Can you tell me what sort of writing it is?

Jess: It's an explanation

...

I: What do you know about an explanation?

Jess: Um, not much. But ... um ... you answer the questions of who, where, what, why and all of them.

26 June

I: Now you'd learnt a lot about explanations by this stage: what did you know about explanations that helped you to write?

Jess: The format of it ... and ... that when you finish a sentence ... like ... you might be talking about how the blades push down in one sentence and ... like, just at the end ... and then ...

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