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Understanding and supporting young writers from birth to 8 / edited by Noella M. Mackenzie and Janet Scull

Published
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Additional Creators
Mackenzie, Noella M. and Scull, Janet

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Contents
Foreword / Adria F. Klein -- 1. Introduction to Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 / Noella M. Mackenzie and Janet Scull -- 2. The drawing and writing journey: progressions in children's learning / Noella M. Mackenzie -- 3. Preparing children for writing: birth to 2 / Laura McFarland -- 4. Writing in the preschool years / Bridie Raban -- 5. Transitions and learning to write / Noella M. Mackenzie -- 6. Developing authorial skills: child language leading to text construction, sentence construction and vocabulary development / Janet Scull and Noella M. Mackenzie -- 7. Developing editorial skills: spelling / Tessa Daffern -- 8. Handwriting, keyboarding or both? / Noella M. Mackenzie and Rebecca Spokes -- 9. Assessing writing: practices to support young writers / Janet Scull -- 10. Teaching writing strategies / Marian Nicolazzo and Noella M. Mackenzie -- 11. Young children creating multimodel stories in their howm, school and digital spaces / Lisa Kervin and Jessica Mantei -- 12. Teaching writing to EAL learners / Paul Molyneux -- 13. When learning to write isn't easy / Natalie Thompson.
Summary
As the world comes to grips with that it means to be literate in the twenty-first century, Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 provides practitioners with the skills and knowledge they need to support young children effectively as they learn to write. Interweaving theory and research with everyday practice, the book offers guidance on all aspects of writing, from creating multimodal texts and building children's vocabulary, to providing support for children who find writing particularly challenging. With appropriate strategies to develop young children's writing from an early age included throughout, the book discusses the role of oral language in early writing in detail and explores the key relationships between 'drawing and talking', 'drawing and writing' and 'drawing, talking and writing'. Each chapter also features samples of writing and drawing to illustrate key points, as well as reflective questions to help the reader apply ideas in their own settings--back cover.
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ISBN
9781138674431 (hardcover)
1138674435 (hardcover)
9781138674448 (paperback)
1138674443 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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