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Teaching Children to Write
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Perspectives and provocations in early childhood education
by Vivian Maria Vasquez
Mandates to implement practices that are antithetical to what we embrace as supportive of young children's literacy learning are pervasive. Teachers of young children are asked to teach-to-the test in ways that take away opportunities for holistic, thoughtful, play-oriented practices that allow children to construct knowledge through contextualized and purposeful experiences. In 2009 the Early Childhood Assembly was formed by a group of early childhood educators to provide a home at the National Council for Teacher of English for all who work with young children. Perspectives and Provocations in Early Childhood Education is a publication of the ECEA. The publication is intended to support teachers of young children and those interested in studying about early literacy by putting on offer texts with a strong emphasis on promoting thoughtful practices that enhance the teaching and learning of young children within and across diverse communities. All royalties from the book go to the ECEA to help the organization advance its goals of providing scholarships for early childhood teachers to participate in conferences and professional development events.
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The Classrooms All Young Children Need : Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley
by Patricia M. Cooper
Teacher and author Vivian Paley is highly regarded by parents, educators, and other professionals for her original insights into such seemingly everyday issues as play, story, gender, and how young children think. In The Classrooms All Young Children Need, Patricia M. Cooper takes a synoptic view of Paley’s many books and articles, charting the evolution of Paley’s thinking while revealing the seminal characteristics of her teaching philosophy. This careful analysis leads Cooper to identify a pedagogical model organized around two complementary principles: a curriculum that promotes play and imagination, and the idea of classrooms as fair places where young children of every color, ability, and disposition are welcome. With timely attention paid to debates about the reduction in time for play in the early childhood classroom, the role of race in education, and No Child Left Behind, The Classrooms All Young Children Need will be embraced by anyone tasked with teaching our youngest pupils.
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Animal stories : Writing Stories
by Anita Ganeri
Teaches young readers how to write animal stories, covering such topics as generating ideas, building characters, and selecting a point of view.
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Children's Literature and Learner Empowerment : Children and Teenagers in English Language Education
by Janice Bland
Children's literature can be a powerful way to encourage and empower EFL students but is less commonly used in the classroom than adult literature. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to children's and young adult literature in EFL teaching. It demonstrates the complexity of children's literature and how it can encourage an active community of second language readers: with multilayered picturebooks, fairy tales, graphic novels and radical young adult fiction. It examines the opportunities of children's literature in EFL teacher education, including: the intertexuality of children's literature as a gate-opener for canonized adult literature; the rich patterning of children's literature supporting Creative Writing; the potential of interactive drama projects. Close readings of texts at the center of contemporary literary scholarship, yet largely unknown in the EFL world, provide an invaluable guide for teacher educators and student teachers, including works by David Almond, Anthony Browne, Philip Pullman and J.K.Rowling. Introducing a range of genres and their significance for EFL teaching, this study makes an important new approach accessible for EFL teachers, student teachers and teacher educators.
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Journals and narratives
by Anita Ganeri
An introduction to writing diaries, blogs, and other narratives covers style, language, planning, and order, and offers exercises including writing a journal in the voice of a pet.
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A place for wonder : reading and writing nonfiction in the primary grades
by Georgia Heard
In A Place for Wonder, Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough discuss how to create a landscape of wonder, a primary classroom where curiosity, creativity, and exploration are encouraged. For it is these characteristics, the authors write, that develop intelligent, inquiring, life-long learners.
The authors research shows that many primary grade state standards encourage teaching for understanding, critical thinking, creativity, and question asking, and promote the development of children who have the attributes of inventiveness, curiosity, engagement, imagination, and creativity. With these goals in mind, Georgia and Jennifer provide teachers with numerous, practical ways setting up wonder centers, gathering data though senses, teaching nonfiction craft they can create a classroom environment where student s questions and observations are part of daily work.
They also present a step-by-step guide to planning a nonfiction reading and writing unit of study creating a nonfiction book, which includes creating a table of contents, writing focused chapters, using wow words, and developing point of view. A Place for Wonder will help teachers reclaim their classrooms as a place where true learning is the norm.
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Children's language : connecting reading, writing, and talk
by Judith Wells Lindfors
The more teachers understand about how children learn to talk, the more they can help children become avid, joyful readers and writers. Drawing on a large body of research and her own volunteer work at a family shelter, Lindfors concisely identifies several important commonalities across oral and written language. Taking the compelling perspective that it's all language, she traces children's emergent literacy from infancy through the early school years. The book incorporates abundant examples from a diverse range of children engaged in authentic literacy experiences. Lindfors describes a set of language principles that teachers can build on as they help young students learn to read and write using the oral language processes they already know.
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Guy-write : what every guy writer needs to know
by Ralph J Fletcher
A writing guide for boys draws on advice by such authors as Jon Scieszka, Jarrett Krosoczka and Robert Lipsyte regarding how to make writing assignments fun and empowering while sharing tips for exploring a variety of subjects and capturing key story moments.
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How to write your life story
by Ralph J. Fletcher
The author's fifth writing guide for young readers teaches would-be autobiographers about the style and organization of a biography, and includes samples of work by young writers as well as interviews with authors such as Jack Gantos and Jerry Spinelli.
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Rocket Writes a Story
by Tad Hills
Loving books so much that he wants to write one of his own, Rocket the puppy searches for ideas and is encouraged by a little yellow bird to observe various details in the world around him, advice that leads to a new friendship and inspiration for a story. By the creator of the best-selling How Rocket Learned to Read.
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