Follows the progress of three young boys as they learn to collaborate in school. Shows the importance of allowing students to talk through their writing and reading tasks and to recognize the social and listening skills that develop along with their writing. (MG)

The third article in a series describing a study of the development of a third grader's approach to revision in writing. (DD)

This fourth article in a series on the writing process describes one child's writing process and draws implications for teaching first grade writing. (DD)

Presents early data on revision which emerged from a two-year study of the writing processes of 16 primary school children. (DD)

Presents a case study of a fourth grade boy writing science fiction in a writing workshop. (HTH)

Follows changes in children's writing from the first through fourth grade, presenting case study data that show how children's writing shifts from play to craft. (GT)

Describes fourth-grade students' experiences during a concentrated research writing project. Shows through a case study how students learned to present objective information through a narrative vehicle. (HTH)

Compares the progression of writing skills of two girls from first through third grades, showing development of style, persona, spelling, and grammar. Discusses the implications for the teaching of writing on an individual and classroom basis. (HTH)

Examines children's story-writing processes as they develop over a two-year period, from kindergarten through second grade. Observes that children reflect multiple worlds in their writing, including their ongoing social world, the imaginary world of their story, and the wider, experienced world of people, places, and events. (MM)

Describes a two-day residence in a fifth- and sixth-grade classroom of poet Arnold Adoff. Presents his interaction with five students as they struggle with their poetry writing. (HTH)

Describes observations of one student's writing process and the ease with which the student transformed prose into poetry. Discusses what the teacher learned from the observations about the sensitivity and energy of eighth-grade writing students. (HTH)

Describes the process one sixth grader went through in writing a short story and analyzes what this reveals about writing and the teaching of writing. (DD)

Describes the growing autonomy of three young siblings as they wrote in the poetic function over a five-year period. Includes samples of the children's poetry. (HTH)

Follows the development, from fifth grade through eighth grade, of a student poet, who can teach educators what it means to "feel expressed." Offers new ways to think about who children are, what they need to say, and what they need to be taught. Discusses the possibilities of poetry for gaining access to children's deepest capacities for…

The first of a series of columns which will describe the progress of a longitudinal research project on the writing process funded by the National Institute of Education for two years. (DD)