The learning-to-write process in elementary classrooms
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The learning-to-write process in elementary classrooms
Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and indexes
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Description
This text models for teachers how to help children learn and write by establishing comfort with writing, building confidence, and developing competence. Several themes run through the learning-to-write-process presented in this text:
* Writing is communication;
* Writing is a powerful tool for learning;
* How children feel about their writing and themselves as writers affects how they learn to write;
* Teachers are coworkers with students; children from many backgrounds can learn to write together.
The text sythesizes what we know about how children learn, how we write, and what we write into a process of teaching children to write. It is intended to serve as a starting place for developing theories of how to best teach writing.
Table of Contents
Contents: Preface. Part I: The Learning-to-Write Process. Learning to Write. Establishing Comfort. Building Confidence. Developing Competence. The Conventions of Writing. Part II: Reasons to Write. To Communicate. Telling Our Own Stories. Sharing Information. Trying to Change Things. For the Love of Writing. To Learn. Part III: The Teaching-Writing Process. Learning to Teach Writing. Teacher Evaluation of Student Writing. Tuning Teaching. Appendix: Quick Review of Editing Rules (For Teachers Only)!
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