How Children Learn to Write: Supporting and Developing Children's Writing in School

Topics also covered include:

• Brain development and structures
• The acquisition of speech
• Language and thinking
• Working memory
• Secretarial skills
• Stages in compositional development
• Writing purposes and cross-curricular applications
• Strategies for improving self-generated writing
• Using reading to improve writing
• Using speech and drama to improve writing and
• Ten ways to improve children's writing.

This book is for serving teachers in schools wishing to study the subject in further depth, and as a source book for students. Useful for school-based staff INSET, it provides simple activities for teachers to do and discuss.