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>