Any Child Can Write: A Guide to Enhancing Your Child's Elementary Education

ISBN13: 9780195153163
ISBN: 0195153162
UPC: 000000712223
Publisher: Oxford University Press


Group: Homeschool
Format: Paperback Book
Category: Language Arts, Creative Writing
Reading/Grade Level: Preschool to 12th

Description:

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.

Harvey S. Wiener, Ph.D. is former Vice-President, Marymont Manhattan College.

"Absolutely the best book ever written, and quite possibly the best that ever will be written, on teaching children to write." - Mary Pride, The New Big Book of Home Learning

"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

"Notable for a positive, upbeat tone and readable, informal style, this book will motivate, even inspire, parents to supplement and enrich their children's learning experiences. Any Child Can Write outlines a home program that encourages creative writing. Word games, sentence crafts, autobiography, poetry, narration, painting word pictures, letter writing, and preparing school reports are covered. Appendixes list 100 topics for writing, dictionaries and wordbooks for children, and language skill books for parents. Libraries with the first edition may not find it necessary to acquire this one, although it does contain some updated material. Concerned parents and institutions without the first should have it." - Shirley L. Hopkinson, California State Univ., San Jose