Lineation:

The use of Tony Ross’s children’s book ‘I want a cat’ lineation is interesting. The way the lineation is divided up shows how books can help children at the early stage of reading.  At the beginning of the extract the writer uses a short sentence ‘On Monday Jessie went to school.’  This sets the scene and a picture in the child’s imagination. But by breaking the sentences from each other, allows the child to pause and departs them from the picture they had from the previous sentence to the new subject that is about to be read. The use of the adverbial clause ‘he shouted so loudly’ is separated to allow the child space for a micro pause, while elongating the word ‘so’ allowing them to have time to find the next sentence for vocal reading which helps the child to read fluently.