Children in Latin America often complain that the authors write not for them but for their parents. They are given lectura (“reading matter”) rather than literatura, which is but to say that in Latin America the admonitory note, considered so useful by church, state, and parent, continues...
C. they didn’t know what to write about the composition 2. The second paragraph is mainly to tell us that ___. A. Henry was a lazy boy B. students wrote compositions on different topics C. other students was cleverer than Henry 3. Why did the teacher ask Henry to stand behind the...
the latest study,children first created their story with Lego,with similar results.'Many teachers commented that they had always previously had children saying they didn't know what to write about.With the Lego building,however,not a single child said this through the whole year of the project...
she’s practising how to regulate her emotions through pretence. Later on, when they tire of this and settle down with a board game, she’s learning about the need to follow rules and take turns with a partner.
study, children first created their story with Lego*, with similar results. 'Many teachers commented that they had always previously had children saying they didn't know what to write about. With the Lego building, however, not a single child said this through the whole year of the project....
Children tended to write more frequently about personal experiences and activities, and about settings that involved nature and animals; however, interactivity and social context was almost always present in children's stories. Boys and girls tended to write about almost the same topics, with a ...
About this book This book looks at the changing shape of children's literature in English from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. In particular it examines the dialect between 'enclosure' and 'exposure', control and freedom of both fictional child and child reader, how the balance of ...
study, children first created their story with Lego*, with similar results.'Many teachers commented that they had always previously had children saying they didn't know what to write about. With the Lego building, however, not a single child said this through the whole year of the project.'...
When teaching how to write a story, you can have students first focus on answering the wh-questions: who, what, when, where, why and how. You can take books or stories that the class has read and chart the answers to these questions in a bubble diagram. Write the name of the story...
About the author JANET MAYBIN is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication at the Open University, UK. She has written extensively for Open University courses on language, literacy and learning, and also researches and writes on children's and adults' informal language and literacy practices...