Any child can write
The popular home program that lets parents teach their children to write, now in a new edition. 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 ne
1 online resource (xviii, 366 pages) : illustrations
9780195153163, 9781423775751, 9780198034964, 9786610532483, 0195153162, 1423775759, 0198034962, 6610532486
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; 1 Introduction: THE SECOND "R"; 2 Notes, Signs, and Shopping Lists: HOW CAN A PARENT HELP?; 3 Experience and Creative Expression; 4 Pictures, Words, and Sentences: LAYING FOUNDATIONS; 5 The Senses at Play: IMAGES AS BUILDING BLOCKS; 6 Correctness, Part 1: AN OUTLOOK FOR YOUNG WRITERS AT HOME; 7 Correctness, Part 2: WORD GAMES AND WORD AND SENTENCE CRAFT; 8 Snapshots of Special Places; 9 One Person in the Floodlights; 10 A Moment Reborn in Language; 11 Adventures in Make-Believe; 12 A Child's Message Through the Mails
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