Any Child Can Write

Name: Any Child Can Write
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ISBN: 9780195153163

ISBN-10: 0195153162

ISBN-13: 9780195153163

Edition: 4th 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Harvey S. Wiener

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Harvey S. Wiener shows how parents can encourage their children to write with a home program that can be used from preschool through high school. Beginning with the building of attitudes, Wiener moves through simple, varied and practical experience with the written word. By setting up an atmosphere in the home that encourages creative written expression, coupled with a parent's guidance in writing, children gain an outlook on writing that builds confidence in their abilities to use language. This new edition addresses many heated issues about children's education and touches on today's critical debates: parents' roles in school preparations, the increased stress on writing assessment and…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/6/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.31" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.660



Acknowledgments


Preface



Introduction: The Second "R"



Notes, Signs, and Shopping Lists: How Can a Parent Help?



Experience and Creative Expression



Pictures, Words, and Sentences: Laying Foundations



The Senses at Play: Images as Building Blocks



Correctness, Part 1: An Outlook for Young Writers at Home



Correctness, Part 2: Word Games and Word and Sentence Craft



Snapshots of Special Places



One Person in the Floodlights



A Moment Reborn in Language



Adventures in Make-Believe



A Child's Message Through the Mails



Words in Focus: Creative Definitions for Your Young Writer



Language Singing: Your Child as Poet



A Report for School



Adventures at the Keyboard



An Afterword for Too-Busy Parents



Fifty Ideas for Writing at Home



A Parent's Primer on Correctness



Key Books for Young Writers and their Parents


Index


About the Author