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John, Eileen – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2019
The role of reading in educating a future writer is discussed through the study of memoirs by writers including Janet Frame, James Baldwin, and Eudora Welty. The memoirs show reading books to have been a transformative way of melding forms of experience. The following features of childhood reading are examined: (1) the role of the physical book,…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Beginning Reading, Reading Writing Relationship, Books
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Myhill, Debra; Jones, Susan – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2009
The principle that emergent writing is supported by talk, and that an appropriate pedagogy for writing should include planned opportunities for talk is well researched and well understood. However, the process by which talk becomes text is less clear. The term "oral rehearsal" is now commonplace in English classrooms and curriculum policy…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Childrens Writing, Early Childhood Education, Beginning Writing