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The Learning-to-Write Process in Elementary Classrooms
By Suzanne Bratcher
248 pages
- Contributors:
- Publisher:
- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
- Place of publication:
- Mahwah, NJ
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Subjects:
Synopsis
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 ...
• 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 ...
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.
• 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.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Part I - The Learning-To-Write Process 1
- 1 - Learning to Write 3
- 2 - Establishing Comfort 8
- 3 - Building Confidence 24
- 4 - Developing Competence 43
- 5 - The Conventions of Writing 57
- Part II - Reasons to Write 67
- 6 - To Communicate 69
- 7 - Telling Our Own Stories 79
- 8 - Sharing Information 93
- 9 - Trying to Change Things 105
- 10 - For the Love of Writing 118
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Part I - The Learning-To-Write Process 1
- 1 - Learning to Write 3
- 2 - Establishing Comfort 8
- 3 - Building Confidence 24
- 4 - Developing Competence 43
- 5 - The Conventions of Writing 57
- Part II - Reasons to Write 67
- 6 - To Communicate 69
- 7 - Telling Our Own Stories 79
- 8 - Sharing Information 93
- 9 - Trying to Change Things 105
- 10 - For the Love of Writing 118
- 11 - To Learn 131
- Part III - The Teaching-Writing Process 147
- 12 - Learning to Teach Writing 149
- 13 - Teacher Evaluation of Student Writing 162
- 14 - Tuning Teaching 175
- Appendix 187
- References 215
- Author Index 219
- Subject Index 221