An introduction to and explanation of a wide range of specific evaluation strategies used by classroom teachers to arrive at grades for children's writing, giving explicit instructions for implementing them. Samples of student writing accompany the instructions to illustrate the…
Evaluating Children's Writing: A Handbook of Grading Choices for Classroom Teachers, Second Edition introduces and explains a wide range of specific evaluation strategies used by classroom teachers to arrive at grades and gives explicit instructions for implementing them. Sample…
Educators want young people to grow up knowing that writing is an important and deeply satisfying life skill, one that helps them make more sense of themselves and their world, and one that helps them to communicate effectively. Sadly, too often writing becomes merely an exercis…
Pt. 1. Literacies in private lives -- pt. 2. Literacies in public (academic) lives -- pt. 3. Literacies in working lives.
This book brings together Patricia F. Carini's concept of the developing child as a "maker of works" and M.M. Bakhtin's theory of language as "hero" to re-examine how we have defined and researched early written language development. Through a collection of five essays and a doc…
Using Talk to Support Writing
by Larkin, Shirley, Myhill, Debra, Jones, Susan, Fisher, Ros
Using Talk to Support Writing presents a new and innovative approach to the teaching of early writing. The authors discuss both theoretical and practical issues around using talk in the classroom to support children as they learn to write. Set within the context of national conc…
Using Talk to Support Writing presents a new and innovative approach to the teaching of early writing. The authors discuss both theoretical and practical issues around using talk in the classroom to support children as they learn to write. Set within the context of national conc…
This text presents an approach to the teaching of early writing. It discusses both theoretical and practical issues around using talk in the classroom to support children as they learn to write.