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Peer reviewedDonovan, Carol A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2001
Describes the intermediate forms of children's informational and story composition across the elementary grades. Finds that even the youngest children differentiated between the genres with over half of all kindergartners and first graders producing texts classified at some level of organizational complexity above labels and statement, and by…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Childrens Writing, Elementary Education, Grammar
Ray, Katie Wood – 1999
Drawing on stories from classrooms, examples of student writing, and illustrations, this book explains in practical terms the theoretical underpinnings of how elementary school students learn to write from their reading. Beginning with the concepts that underlie how writing teachers teach students to write by studying other writers, it goes on to…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Childrens Writing, Elementary Education, Reading Aloud to Others
