Rothery - 4 categories that appear in early writing

• Observation/Comment


  Writer makes observation and follows up with an evaluative comment or mixed both observation and evaluation

  'I ate my tea' = Observation

  'My tea was yummy' = Evaluation

  'I ate my yummy tea' = Mixed
• Recount


  Subjective

  Chronological retelling of events

  3 part structure:

  Orientation - sets the scene eg journey to event

  Event

  Reorientation - Completes the writing
• Report


  Factual observation of event

  Description of event that tends to be chronological
• Narrative


  Genre thats hardest to achieve

  Story where scene is deliberately set for events to occur and then resolve in a set pattern

  Orientation

  Complicating act

  Resolution

  Coda (not always added)

  Complex so few children achieve the whole structure early despite reading stories following this structure