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Ray, Katie Wood; Glover, Matt – Heinemann, 2008
By the time they reach preschool or kindergarten, young children are already writers. They don't have much experience, but they're filled with stories to tell and ideas to express--they want to show the world what they know and see. All they need is a nurturing teacher to recognize the writer at work within them. Taking an exciting, new approach…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Childrens Writing, Picture Books, Young Children
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Bloodgood, Janet W. – Reading Teacher, 1989
Suggests the use of a taped dictation program to allow children to fully express ideas without initial concern for the mechanical tasks of spelling and handwriting. Offers steps to carry out a writing program with taped dictation. (MG)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Beginning Writing, Class Activities, Dictation
Epstein, 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