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

Published
New York : Routledge, 2025.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Additional Creators
Mackenzie, Noella M. and Scull, Janet
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Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to 'Understanding and Supporting Young Writers' from birth to 8 / Noella M Mackenzie and Janet Scull -- Chapter 2: Drawing and writing: journeys, transitions and milestones / Noella M Mackenzie -- Chapter 3: Discovering writing: Birth to 2 / Anne Keary and Laura McFarland -- Chapter 4: Writing in the preschool years / Bridie Raban -- Chapter 5: Developing authorial skills: child language leading to text construction, sentence construction and vocabulary development / Janet Scull and Noella M Mackenzie -- Chapter 6: Developing spelling skills / Tessa Daffern -- Chapter 7: Handwriting, keyboarding or both? / Noella M Mackenzie and Spokes -- Chapter 8: Assessing writing: practices to support young writers / Janet Scull -- Chapter 9: Teaching writing strategies / Marian Nicolazzo and Noella M Mackenzie -- Chapter 10: Draw, talk, write and share (DTWS) / Noella M Mackenzie -- Chapter 11: Young children creating multimodal stories in their home, school and digital spaces / Lisa Kervin and Jessica Mantei -- Chapter 12: Supporting plurilingualism in young writers / Paul Molyneux -- Chapter 13: When learning to write isn't easy / Natalie Thompson and Janet Scull.
Summary
"Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 provides practitioners with the knowledge and skills they need to support young children as they learn to write. This fully updated second edition offers new guidance on all aspects of writing, from building children's vocabulary and creating multimodal texts to providing support for children who find writing particularly challenging. All chapters have been revised and updated with increased emphasis on engaging with families and catering for children from diverse communities. A new chapter focuses on the Draw, Talk, Write, Share (DTWS), pedagogical approach to teaching writing. The book discusses the role of oral language in early mark-making and writing in detail and explores the key relationships between 'drawing and talking', 'drawing and writing' and 'drawing, talking and writing'. Each chapter also features practical strategies and samples of writing and/or drawing to illustrate key points, as well as reflective questions to help the reader apply the ideas to their own setting. Further topics covered include: - progressions in children's writing - writing in the pre-school years - developing authorial skills - developing phonological awareness, phonics and spelling - handwriting and keyboarding skills - teaching writing to plurilingual learners - assessing writing Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 is a contemporary and unique resource that will help early childhood educators, early years school teachers, specialist practitioners working with very young children, and students enrolled in Early Childhood or Primary Studies courses to boost their confidence in teaching young learners as they become writers"--
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ISBN
9781003439264 (ebk)
1003439268
9781040108505 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1040108504 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
9781040108413 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1040108415 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9781032574219 (hbk)
9781032574189 (pbk)
Note
"First edition published by Routledge 2018"--T.p. verso.
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