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Teaching Writing Skills with Children's Literature.
Dierking, Connie Campbell; Anderson-McElveen, Susan – 1998
Intended for teachers, this workbook uses 20 well-known children's books as models to teach expository and narrative writing skills. The workbook teaches students about brainstorming, focus, organization, elaboration, and writing conventions with readily-available quality children's literature, such as "When I Was Young in the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Language Arts
...And with a Light Touch: Learning about Reading, Writing, and Teaching with First Graders. Second Edition.
Avery, Carol – 2002
This book sheds prescriptive teaching for listening to children. It is the work of an experienced, practicing teacher with a sound interpretation of first-grade children, giving insight and examples of children and a teacher learning together. This second edition incorporates stories from the author/educator and learning from her new experiences…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Grade 1
Creating Classrooms for Authors: The Reading-Writing Connection.
Harste, Jerome C.; And Others – 1988
Intended for practitioners, this book presents a curricular framework for classroom reading and writing experiences that help students understand how reading and writing relate to reasoning and learning. The two sections of the book are organized around three major components of curriculum and how each component was realized in three Indiana…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Instructional Innovation
Teaching Children To Read and Write: Becoming an Influential Teacher. Second Edition.
Ruddell, Robert B. – 1999
This second edition focuses on helping the preservice teacher become an "Influential Reading Teacher," one whom students remember years later as a special teacher and person. The ideas and teaching strategies in the book actively involve preservice teachers in understanding and thinking about children's reading and writing development. New to this…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Education, Professional Development
Every Child Can Write! Learning and Teaching Written Expression in the 1980s.
Walshe, R. D. – 1982
Noting the improvement that has occurred in the teaching of writing since the introduction of the process approach to instruction, this book offers suggestions for still more improvement and for solving the problems that arise in the teaching of writing. The first section of the book stresses the importance of letting children write and of…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Language Usage
Only Connect: Uniting Reading and Writing.
Newkirk, Thomas, Ed. – 1986
Drawn from talks given at a conference held at the University of New Hampshire in October 1984, the papers in this collection explore the relationship of composition to reading and literature studies. Following an introductory chapter written by Thomas Newkirk, which contains background information about that relationship as well as an overview of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Theories, English Curriculum, Freshman Composition