How Children Learn to Write: Supporting and Developing Children′s Writing in School (Paul Chapman Publishing Title) - Softcover

Latham, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761947825 ISBN 13: 9780761947820

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002

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Synopsis:

'This book is a useful addition to any staff library. What makes it different to many other similar books is that it shows teachers that speaking, listening and reading create the foundations for writing. Tested in schools, staff said: "It is a very useful framework for action-research based upon secure theory. When deciding classroom strategies, it is easy to find what you are looking for and the chapter summaries are very helpful. Some of the staff development and training suggestions are very practical and we are trying them out. We found the emphasis upon class novels and the class discussion that follows, very important, especially when linked to the excellent examples of children's writing." This book may appear to some as theoretical and 'academic', but this is why it will be valuable. It does what the title says because it shows how children learn to write. It starts at the beginning and saves diving into the latest trend.Perhaps its best recommendation is that every school that was asked to look at it said, 'It's good and we have ordered a copy' - John Lilly, independent education consultant 'The chapter on the Taxonomy of Writing Purposes will be useful for planning and t

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0761947825
• ISBN 13: 9780761947820
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208