In text E a girl and her father are reading a book together. The girl is 6 years old which means she is in the post telegraphic stage of lexical and semantic development. The are reading the book together at bedtime. This is important in a child's reading development as they like routine and having the same routine will help them to have a healthy progress.

The caregiver in this text plays an important role in the development of the girl's reading. In this text the caregiver is the girl's father. In terms of pragmatics the father uses tag questions to help a turn-taking technique. This is seen when The girls says "we don't eat any meat" and the father replies saying "no, but we like ketchup, don't we", the "don't we" in the statement makes it a tag question. This encourages the girl to engage in conversation using a typical question-answer technique. This supports Bruner's social interactionist theory, that interacting with the child helps them to understand turn taking.  

The father also uses recasting to correct the daughter. This is seen when he corrects her saying "portion" as she partly pronounces "port" This supports Goffman's face theory as he is saving face by not discouraging her development in learning to read by saying abruptly " no you are wrong." Also, this makes learning to read less daunting for the daughter as it can b very scary for them and by correctly her in a friendlier way she is encouraged to proceed with reading. The father uses phonology to help recast, he uses intonation; this is when he says "tonight" and puts more emphasis on the "night", he does this because the child asks how to pronounce the word. This could supports Bruner's social interactionist theory, that interacting with the child helps them develop and improve their language.

The girl uses discourse features, such as questions "what's that?" when asking her father what portion means. This shows the girl is trying to engage in her environment by asking questions about it, this links with Halliday's functions of language, heuristic. This also reflects Aitchison's research on network building as she is learning about the meanings of different words in her surroundings.

The child uses incorrect grammar. Such as, abbreviations, this is seen when she says "cos" instead of "because" this shows that the child may have already picked up from her environment, for example she has picked it up from the sociolect. However, on the other hand it could be seen as a phonological mistake. The child may not be able to pronounce the "be" in "because" therefore, she is omitting a consonant cluster. This could support Piaget's, cognitive development theory as her cognitive understanding is more developed than her physical pronunciation. This could reflect Jean Berko's "fish experiment" where the child could understand the word "fish" but kept pronouncing it as "fiss."