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The educational climate for teaching writing is a lot different now than it was in the eighties when much of the groundbreaking research was first published. The contributors to Writing in the Elementary Classroom take that thinking and push it in new directions. The authors are all internationally respected educators and researchers, who offer new insight on children as thinkers and writers, and ways to support them in today's classrooms.

Writing in the Elementary Classroom considers writing development from many different angles, creating a rich collage that focuses on how to help students develop into competent writers. The first section of the book consists of four chapters on how to support younger writers. In the second section, the authors explore how a variety of issues influence narrative and poetry writing. The third section looks at nonfiction and ways to do this kind of writing effectively. The final section considers how to prepare writing to be read by an audience. By considering all the different types of writing as well as why we write, the importance of writing, the process of writing, and variety of diverse issues, Writing in the Elementary Classroom is by far the most comprehensive book on writing instruction available today.

This book is available in North America, Australia and New Zealand. Anyone outside these territories should contact David Fulton Publishers, www.fultonpublishers.co.uk.

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Contents

Contents:
Introduction: Learning and Teaching the Complexities of Writing, J. Evans
I. Supporting the Young Writer
1. "That's How I Used to Write My Name When I Was Little," R. Campbell
2. Using Nursery Rhymes, Jingles, Songs, and Poems as a Way into Writing, J. Evans
3. Do You Hear What I Hear?, M. Moustafa & R. Franzese
4. A Place to Start From, C. Kenner
II. Different Ways into Fiction and Poetry
5. Responding to Poetry Through Writing, G. Phinn
6. Writing as a Response to Literature, D. Hornsby & L. Wing Jan
7. From Reading to Writing, M. Lewis
8. The Magic of Writing with Computers, D. Nulty
9. Aspects of Gender, E. Millard
III. Nonfiction Issues
10. Developing Nonfiction Writing, D. Wray & M. Lewis
11. Notemaking Techniques for Young Children, B. Neate
12. Using Graphic Organizers to Write Information Texts, S. Moline
IV. Getting Ready for Publication
13. Developing Understanding of Punctuation with Young Writers and Readers, N. Hall
14. Teaching Spelling Through Writing, S. Wilde
15. Raising Awareness of Grammar Through Shared Writing, G. Hunt

Samples

• Learn how to develop students' writing through poetry (PDF, 85KB).