Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8

Noella Mackenzie, Janet Scull

• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781317200949
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Bildung
• Thema: Bildung Allgemein

As the world comes to grips with what 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. Further topics covered include:

• progressions in children's writing

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• writing in the pre-school years

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• developing authorial skills

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• developing editorial skills

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• teaching writing to EAL learners.

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Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 is a 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover Page
• Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Foreword
• 1 Introduction to Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8
• 2 The Drawing and Writing Journey: Progressions in Children’s Learning
• 3 Preparing Children for Writing: Birth to 2
• 4 Writing in the Preschool Years
• 5 Transitions and Learning to Write
• 6 Developing Authorial Skills: Child LanguagE leading to Text Construction, Sentence Construction and Vocabulary Development
• 7 Developing Editorial Skills: Spelling
• 8 Handwriting, Keyboarding or Both?
• 9 Assessing Writing: Practices to Support Young Writers
• 10 Teaching Writing Strategies
• 11 Young Children Creating Multimodal Stories in their Home, School and Digital Spaces
• 12 Teaching Writing to EAL Learners
• 13 When Learning to Write Isn’t Easy
• Index