Talking, Drawing, Writing

Lessons for Our Youngest Writers

Martha Horn, Mary Giacobbe (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2007
Stenhouse Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-57110-456-4 (ISBN)

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In the early grades, talking and drawing can provide children with a natural pathway to writing, yet these components are often overlooked. In Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our Youngest Writers , authors Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe invite readers to join them in classrooms where they listen, watch, and talk with children, then use what they learn to create lessons designed to meet children where they are and lead them into the world of writing. The authors make a case for a broader definition of writing, advocating for formal storytelling sessions, in which children tell about what they know, and for focused sketching sessions so that budding writers learn how to observe more carefully.The book's lessons are organized by topic and include oral storytelling, drawing, writing words, assessment, introducing booklets, and moving writers forward. Based on the authors' work in urban kindergarten and first-grade classes, the essence and structure of many of the lessons lend themselves to adaptation through fifth grade. The lessons follow a consistent format:

What's going on in the classroom? What do children need to learn next? Materials needed to teach the lesson Language used in each lesson Reasons behind why certain books are chosen and suggestions for additional children’s books

The authors show the thinking behind their teaching decisions and provide a way to look at and assess children's writing, giving us much more than a book of lessons; they present a vision of what beginning writing can look and sound like. Perhaps most powerfully, they give us examples of the language they use with children that reveal a genuine respect for and trust in children as learners.

Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe are codirectors and designers of Writing in Kindergarten, a professional development project in Boston Public Schools. Martha and Mary Ellen have been classroom teachers and presently work as consultants providing classroom-based inservice training for teachers across the country. Martha is a professor of education at Rhode Island College and Providence College. Mary Ellen serves as a consultant for the Literacy Collaborative at Lesley University.

Introduction; Chapter 1: Storytelling; Chapter 2: The Drawing & Writing Book; Chapter 3: Drawing; Chapter 4: The Craft of Drawing; Chapter 5: Writing Words; Chapter 6: Assessment; Chapter 7: Introducing Booklets; Chapter 8: Moving Writers Forward; Chapter 9: One Teacher, One Classroom; Closing Thoughts

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.7.2007
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 280 mm
Gewicht	780 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-57110-456-9 / 1571104569
ISBN-13	978-1-57110-456-4 / 9781571104564
Zustand	Neuware