Literacy skills include expressive and receptive language that is comprehension. This monograph is an exploration of how children in the first year of formal schooling gather information from text.
Six children, three of whom were judged through teacher assessment as being "at risk" for developing literacy skills as expected, were involved in a series of one to one literacy experiences. Personal recounts, oral retellings of familiar and unfamiliar narratives and talk around texts to probe understanding were collected. The transcripts were then analysed using Hallidays Systemic Functional...