I found this chapter to be very helpful. I think having a better understanding of the developmental process of writing will help me to teach writing. The text discusses that teachers need to have a deep understanding of the developmental process of writing. Having a deep understanding of it will provide the teacher with a “road map” to know where the student is and where they need to go. I think the narrative rubric from page 60 is a very helpful thing for teacher to refer to. Teachers need to provide the students a ‘bridge’ to the next stage in developmental writing, knowing where their students are will help with this process.
When students are writing narrative texts there are several features of narrative text that should be pointed out to students. Narrative text features include: sequentiality, particularity (events need to be relevant to the story), intentional states(characters actions should be motivated by their desires), canonicity(there should be a problem and solution). Understanding what these features are and how they are incorporated into writing helps students with their own writing.
I also really liked the use of story frames to help students develop a sense of the sequence of events in a story. This will not only help students with sequencing the events, it will also help the student to only include relevant information.
