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Download full textEpstein, Maria – 2002
Children in the emergent writing stage write in pre-conventional or emergent forms (scribbling, drawing, non-phonetic letterings, and phonetic spelling) before they write conventionally. A special education teacher in a kindergarten inclusion setting in the Bronx, New York, noticing that her students did not particularly like to write, decided and…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Class Activities, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedHall, Nigel – Childhood Education, 2000
Defines interactive writing and how it works. Recommends starting with the message sheet, then going on to written conversation and writing to a make-believe character. Identifies six benefits of interactive writing and asserts that interactive writing supports a basic human need of expressing one's thoughts and communicating them to others. (DLH)
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Childrens Writing, Classroom Techniques, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Moskos, Evie; Mayer, Connie – 1988
A mainstreaming project was carried out in Toronto, Canada, in which four deaf students, ages 5 through 8, were integrated into a classroom of hearing students in grades 1 and 2, for 1 hour, 5 days a week, to participate in a writing program adapting the Graves-Giacobbe process writing model outlined in Donald Graves'"Writing Teachers and…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Deafness
Peer reviewedBradley, Darcy H.; Pottle, Pamela R. – Young Children, 2001
Describes a first-grade teacher's collaboration with a university professor to combine a supportive classroom with on-the-spot conferencing and publishing to support and document growth in student writing. Discusses underlying theories of the practice and illustrates the four-step process for conferencing and publishing. Asserts that on-the-spot…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Childrens Writing, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 2000
The Texas Reading Initiative began in 1996 in response to Governor George W. Bush's challenge to all Texans to focus on the most basic of educational goals--teaching all children to read. This booklet describes important aspects of effective reading instruction, as well as elements of classroom and campus support for effective instruction. The…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Scottish Curriculum Development Service, Edinburgh. – 1986
Having implications for teachers and students at all stages of primary school, this project report delineates an alternative and more effective approach to the teaching of beginning writing. The report points out that the project, while producing a body of classroom-tested material, focused on awareness about written language and how children…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
