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Collins, Norma Decker – Teaching Pre K-8, 1993
Discusses how teachers and parents can help children turn everyday experiences into topics to write about, whether in the form of personal journals, autobiographical essays, or poetry. (MDM)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Download full textBoegeman, Margaret Byrd – 1978
In order to minimize the dread which students and teachers alike often feel toward freshman composition courses, it is important to involve students in reading and writing assignments which are of interest and importance to them. Autobiography, as a subject for study and a focus for writing, can be a great motivator and an expediter of the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Course Content
