Аннотация
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 parents guidance in writing, children gain an outlook on writing that builds confidence in their abilities to use language. This new edition addresses many heated issues about childrens education and touches on todays critical debates: parents roles in school preparations, the increased stress on writing assessment and performance measures throughout a childs education and across school sectors, and the debate over phonics. A revised and expanded section called Key Books for Young Writers and Their Parents will help any family stock its shelves with useful books for a home writing program. A new chapter discusses the ubiquity of home computers and word processing programs and assesses their positive and negative influences on childrens home learning experiences. In addition, Wiener describes how to find the best educational online resources and how to supervise a childs work on the Internet. Furthermore, he emphasizes the importance of collaboration--child and parent, child and sibling--to help avoid computer abuse and establish good computer practices. Finally, he integrates discussion on computers through the text, and also offers writing exercises and samples for children to obtain from Oxfords website.
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