Explain the ways in which Sophie demonstrates her written language development in the transcripts below.

Sophie, aged 4-8 in the transcripts, demonstrates a profound development in her written language skills through her lexis, grammar, orthography and graphology. This is due to the contextual nature of the classroom environment  by which Sophie is exposed to more writing skills, books and reading strategies that would enhance her learning. However, children learn in stages not ages so we would not expect Sophie to be competent to the same level as her classmates.  Lexically, Sophie has advanced in her language development in a variety of ways. We can see a more consistent use of polysyllabic words such as ‘butterfly,’ ‘raining,’ ‘playground’ or ‘mermaid’ in text D at the age of 9 in comparison to her consistent use of monosyllabic words in texts A and B such as ‘bee,’ ‘red’ and ‘dad.’ Furthermore, Sophie’s use of the adverb ‘quickly’ or the superlative ‘bravest’ in text C highlights her contextual development from the classroom’s literacy lessons and supports Katherine Nelson’s lexical development theory which reinstated a child’s initial progression from 4 basic categories of lexis.