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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451620103321

Autore

Wiener Harvey S

Titolo

Any child can write [[electronic resource] /] / Harvey S. Wiener

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-280-53248-3

0-19-803496-2

1-4237-7575-9

Edizione

[4th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Disciplina

372.62/3

Soggetti

Education - Parent participation

English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching

Language arts

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; 1 Introduction: THE SECOND "R"; 2 Notes, Signs, and Shopping Lists: HOW CAN A PARENT HELP?; 3 Experience and Creative Expression; 4 Pictures, Words, and Sentences: LAYING FOUNDATIONS; 5 The Senses at Play: IMAGES AS BUILDING BLOCKS; 6 Correctness, Part 1: AN OUTLOOK FOR YOUNG WRITERS AT HOME; 7 Correctness, Part 2: WORD GAMES AND WORD AND SENTENCE CRAFT; 8 Snapshots of Special Places; 9 One Person in the Floodlights; 10 A Moment Reborn in Language; 11 Adventures in Make-Believe; 12 A Child's Message Through the Mails

13 Words in Focus: CREATIVE DEFINITIONS FOR YOUR YOUNG WRITER14 Language Singing: YOUR CHILD AS POET; 15 A Report for School; 16 Adventures at the Keyboard; 17 An Afterword for Too-Busy Parents; Appendix A. Fifty Ideas for Writing at Home; Appendix B. A Parent's Primer on Correctness; Appendix C. Key Books for Young Writers and Their Parents; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

The popular home program that lets parents teach their children to write, now in a new edition. Harvey S. Wiener shows how parents can encourage their children to write with a home program that can be used from preschool through high school. Beginning with the building



of attitudes, Wiener moves through simple, varied and practical experience with the written word. By setting up an atmosphere in the home that encourages creative written expression, coupled with a parent's guidance in writing, children gain an outlook on writing that builds confidence in their abilities to use language. This ne