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How Children Learn to Write

Supporting and Developing Children’s Writing in Schools

How Children Learn to Write
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How Children Learn to Write, shows how certain strategies can improve children's progress in writing. Dealing with the age range 3-13, the book addresses issues to do with the gender gap; children with English as an additional language and left-handedness. Dorothy Latham includes ideas for sound and easy ongoing assessment of writing. The book is written in line with the requirements of the English National Curriculum and the National Literacy Strategy Framework for England, but is not limited to them. How Children Learn to Write covers: - brain development and structure - the acquisition of speech - language and thinking - working memory - secretarial skills - stages in compositional development - writing purposes and cross-curricular applications - strategies for improving self-generated writing - using reading to improve writing - using speech and drama to improve writing - ten ways to improve children's writing
Sage Publications Ltd.; July 2002
223 pages; ISBN 9781412932677
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