ROTHERY

• What were Rothery’s categories?

  Observation / Comment

  recount

  report

  narrative
• What is the observation/comment category?

  child makes observation and follows with either an evaluative comment or mixes this in with observation
• what is the recount category?

  usually chronological sequence of events. Structure usually follows Orientation - event - reorientation
• What does the orientation in a recount do?

  sets the scene
• what is the report category?

  factual or objective description of events or things, tends to not be chronological
• what is the narrative category?

  story genre where the scene is set for events to occur and be resolved at end. Has set pattern: orientation - complication - resolution - coda

  coda (identifies the point of story) is not always added