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Peer reviewedKamberelis, George – Research in the Teaching of English, 1999
Explores children's working knowledge of narrative, scientific, and poetic genres. Finds that children had significantly more experience with narrative genres than either scientific or poetic genres; and possessed more knowledge of text structure than micro-level features such as cohesion markers. Contributes to theorizing genre learning as a…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Poetry, Primary Education, Text Structure
Peer reviewedDonovan, Carol A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2001
Describes the intermediate forms of children's informational and story composition across the elementary grades. Finds that even the youngest children differentiated between the genres with over half of all kindergartners and first graders producing texts classified at some level of organizational complexity above labels and statement, and by…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Childrens Writing, Elementary Education, Grammar
