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Peer reviewedHicks, Deborah – Language Arts, 1998
Presents a case study of a first-grader who began to articulate a literary voice through her appropriation of narrative form. Focuses on her active response as she made narrative discourses her own. Draws on the work of L. Vygotsky and M. Bakhtin to suggest a way of talking about how young writers construct themselves. (SR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Childrens Writing, Grade 1
Peer reviewedBenjamin, Rebecca – Youth & Society, 1995
Analyzes the structural and thematic elements of three stories written by a sixth-grade Navajo girl to challenge the notion that a linear pattern of growth is followed by all children as they learn to write stories. The results question the assumption that certain kinds of narratives and their American Indian authors are less able or less…
Descriptors: American Indians, Child Development, Childrens Writing, Creative Writing
