The Learning-to-write Process in Elementary Classrooms
Author | : Suzanne Bratcher |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2012-07-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781136606465 |
ISBN-13 | : 1136606467 |
Rating | : 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.