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Raising Writers: Understanding and Nurturing Young by Ruth E. Shagoury

ISBN: 9780205514618 PUBLISHER: Pearson Education (US) FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 144 PUBLICATION DATE: 18.03.2008 DIMENSIONS: 232mmX191mmX8mm 259grams

DESCRIPTION: With the guidance of children's writing enthusiast Ruth Shagoury, teachers will learn to listen to all their students and look at their written work with a new and appreciative lens-one that also helps them anticipate and encourage students in developing new skills appropriately. Drawing on her many years of primary classroom teaching and research, Ruth offers primary teachers, early childhood specialists, and caregivers strategies to nurture connections between oral and writing skills at every stage of children's development for today's multicultural classroom. Ruth's thorough exploration of how young children learn written language presents teachers with the necessary tools to understand the growth and development of written language in a literate culture. Filled with a wealth of resources for extending learning beyond the classroom, Raising Writers: Understanding and Nurturing Young Children's Writing Development includes interviews with the author and book study questions making this a perfect book for book club study groups. Help your students make the transition from oral to written language! * Explores the written language development of pre-school through primary school age children.* Addresses important topics such as the role of the culture of literacy, how drawing and writing go hand-in hand, and the developmental path of spelling and conventions. *Identifies the parallels between

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