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ANY CHILD CAN WRITE 4TH
EDITION
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ISBN
0195153162
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Retail $17.95
Our Price $16.16
Harvey S. Wiener
shows how parents can encourage their children
to write with a home program that can be used
from preschool through high school.
Beginning with the
building of attitudes, Wiener moves through
simple, varied and practical experience with the
written word. By setting up an atmosphere in the
home that encourages creative written
expression, coupled with a parent's guidance in
writing, children gain an outlook on writing
that builds confidence in their abilities to use
language.
This new edition
addresses many heated issues about children's
education and touches on today's critical
debates: parents' roles in school preparations,
the increased stress on writing assessment and
performance measures throughout a child's
education and across school sectors, and the
debate over phonics.
A revised and
expanded section called "Key Books for Young
Writers and Their Parents" will help any family
stock its shelves with useful books for a home
writing program. A new chapter discusses the
ubiquity of home computers and word processing
programs and assesses their positive and
negative influences on children's home learning
experiences.
In addition, Wiener
describes how to find the best educational
online resources and how to supervise a child's
work on the Internet. Furthermore, he emphasizes
the importance of collaboration--child and
parent, child and sibling--to help avoid
computer abuse and establish good computer
practices. Finally, he integrates discussion on
computers through the text, and also offers
writing exercises and samples for children to
obtain from Oxford's website.
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