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Figure 9.8 ‘Early’ child writing: linearity and directionality
distinct modes, and this provides us with a strategy for a reading of the page or
text. The scanning would tell us that there are elements – blocks, of writing and
of image – on this page. As a second step we would decide which of these, if
either, is the dominant mode. We would then know to integrate the non-
