附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-244) and index.
1. Learning to write -- 2. Speech and writing -- 3. Children's speech and children's writing -- 4. The development of the concept of 'sentence' in children's writing -- 5. Genre -- 6. Linguistic and conceptual development: conjoined sentence structures -- 7. The expression of causality in children's language (with Michael Rowan) -- 8. 'Errors' -- 9. Questions in a social theory of literacy.