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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 new edition addresses many heated issues about children's education and touches on today's critical debates: parents' roles in school preparations, the increased stress on writing assessment and performance measures throughout a child's 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 children's home learning experiences. In addition, Wiener describes how to find the best educational online resources and how to supervise a child's 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 Oxford's website.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195153162
ISBN-139780195153163
eBay Product ID (ePID)2280709
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
Publication NameAny Child Can Write
LanguageEnglish
SubjectParenting / General, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year2003
FeaturesRevised Edition, Revised
TypeTextbook
AuthorHarvey S. Wiener
Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Language Arts & Disciplines
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length5.5 in
Item Width8.1 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number4
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-190873
Reviews"Engaging.... [Wiener] makes the job a serious kind of child's play, with some of the gratification instant to both parent and child."--Christian Science Monitor (on previous edition), "Engaging.... [Wiener] makes the job a serious kind of child's play, with some of the gratification instant to both parent and child."--Christian Science Monitor (on previous edition) "Absolutely the best book ever written, and quite possibly the best that ever will be written, on teaching children to write."-Mary Pride, author of The New Big Book of Home Learning (on previous edition), "Engaging.... [Wiener] makes the job a serious kind of child's play, with some of the gratification instant to both parent and child."--Christian Science Monitor(on previous edition) "Absolutely the best book ever written, and quite possibly the best that ever will be written, on teaching children to write."-Mary Pride, author ofThe New Big Book of Home Learning(on previous edition), "Engaging.... [Wiener] makes the job a serious kind of child's play, with some of the gratification instant to both parent and child."--Christian Science Monitor (on previous edition)"Absolutely the best book ever written, and quite possibly the best that ever will be written, on teaching children to write."-Mary Pride, author of The New Big Book of Home Learning (on previous edition), "Absolutely the best book ever written, and quite possibly the best that ever will be written, on teaching children to write."-Mary Pride, author of The New Big Book of Home Learning (on previous edition), "Engaging.... [Wiener] makes the job a serious kind of child's play, with some of the gratification instant to both parent and child."--Christian Science Monitor (on previous edition)"Absolutely the best book ever written, and quite possibly the best that ever will be written, on teaching children to write."-Mary Pride, author of The New Big Book of Home Learning (on previous edition)"Engaging.... [Wiener] makes the job a serious kind of child's play, with some of the gratification instant to both parent and child."--Christian Science Monitor (on previous edition)"Absolutely the best book ever written, and quite possibly the best that ever will be written, on teaching children to write."-Mary Pride, author of The New Big Book of Home Learning (on previous edition)
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal372.62/3
Lc Classification NumberLb1576.W4874 2003