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.
ISBN: | 9780805822557 |
Publication date: | 1st September 1997 |
Author: | Suzanne Bratcher |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Inc |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 244 pages |