Basic Tools for Beginning Writers - How to Teach All the Skills Beginning Writers Need

Informationen zum Autor Betty Schultze Klappentext Teach all the skills beginning writers need -- from alphabet recognition and spelling to strategies for self-editing and building coherent text. This thoughtful book offers strategies for helping children grasp the pencil, print legibly, spell, punctuate, and create sentences that contain complete thoughts and link them together logically. With background information, lesson ideas, and suggestions for modifications that lead to best practice. Zusammenfassung This practical book offers effective and creative activities that help young students master the skills they need to grow as writers. Among the topics discussed, the book thoroughly explores the important beginning steps, such as:putting pencil to paper;identifying and printing letters of the alphabet; exploring sound–symbol matches. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Contextual Framework; Putting Pencil to Paper; Identifying and Making Letters of the Alphabet; Incorporating Basic Tools into Routines and Play; Phonemic Awareness and Sound-Symbol Matches; Learning How to Spell; Creating a Legible! Coherent Text; Resources; Appendixes; Index

Product details

• Authors: Betty Schultze
• Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2008
• EAN: 9781551382210
• ISBN: 978-1-55138-221-0
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 267 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology