ABSTRACT
A question often asked by teachers concerns the kinds of writing they should ask or encourage their children to do. Behind this question is a feeling, quite commonly held, that children are often not sufficiently extended in the range of writing they do, and a recognition that they should be writing more than the ubiquitous ‘story’. In this Unit we shall examine the range of writing which we might expect of primary children, and attempt to set this range into a coherent framework. We shall begin by looking at the somewhat onesided picture of writing which we have inherited from past enthusiasms.
