Providing practitioners with the knowledge and skills they need to support young children as they learn to write, this fully updated second edition offers new guidance on all aspects of writing, from building childrens vocabulary and creating multimodal texts to providing support for children who find writing particularly challenging.
Noella M. Mackenzie is an Associate Professor (adjunct) at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is an experienced literacy educator and researcher. Noellas research, which is largely focused on the learning and teaching of writing, is informed by her ongoing work with classroom teachers and early childhood educators.
Janet Scull is an Associate Professor at Monash University, Australia. She is an experienced tertiary literacy educator with a rich background in practitioner research. Janets research explores language and literacy acquisition processes and practices that support the continuity of childrens learning across early childhood settings and the early years of schooling.
Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction to Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8
Chapter 2: Drawing and writing: Journeys, transitions and milestones
Chapter 3: Discovering writing birth2 years
Chapter 4: Writing in the preschool years
Chapter 5: Developing authorial skills: Child language leading to text construction, sentence construction, and vocabulary development
Chapter 6: Developing spelling skills
Chapter 7: Handwriting, keyboarding, or both?
Chapter 8: Assessing writing: Practices to support young writers
Chapter 9: Teaching writing
Chapter 10: Draw, Talk, Write, and Share (DTWS)
Chapter 11: Younglc˝
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