Learning-to-write Process in Elementary Classrooms

<p>This text models for teachers how to help children learn and write by establishing comfort with writing, building confidence, and developing competence. Several themes run through the learning-to-write-process presented in this text:<br>* Writing is communication;<br>* Writing is a powerful tool for learning;<br>* How children feel about their writing and themselves as writers affects how they learn to write;<br>* Teachers are coworkers with students; children from many backgrounds can learn to write together.<br> The text sythesizes what we know about how children learn, how we write, and what we write into a process of teaching children to write. It is intended to serve as a starting place for developing theories of how to best teach writing.</p> <p><b>Contents: </b>Preface. <b>Part I: </b><i>The Learning-to-Write Process.</i> Learning to Write. Establishing Comfort. Building Confidence. Developing Competence. The Conventions of Writing. <b>Part II: </b><i>Reasons to Write.</i> To Communicate. Telling Our Own Stories. Sharing Information. Trying to Change Things. For the Love of Writing. To Learn. <b>Part III: </b><i>The Teaching-Writing Process.</i> Learning to Teach Writing. Teacher Evaluation of Student Writing. Tuning Teaching. <b>Appendix: </b>Quick Review of Editing Rules (For Teachers Only)!</p>