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.