Any child can write / Harvey S. Wiener.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiener, Harvey S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Parent participation.

Education.

English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching.

English language.

Language arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; 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

13 Words in Focus: CREATIVE DEFINITIONS FOR YOUR YOUNG WRITER14 Language Singing: YOUR CHILD AS POET; 15 A Report for School; 16 Adventures at the Keyboard; 17 An Afterword for Too-Busy Parents; Appendix A. Fifty Ideas for Writing at Home; Appendix B. A Parent's Primer on Correctness; Appendix C. Key Books for Young Writers and Their Parents; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-353) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028839-6

1-280-53248-3

0-19-803496-2

1-4237-7575-9

OCLC:

476107008