Martha Horn,Mary Ellen Giacobbe: Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our Youngest Writers
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Invites rs desigeaders to join them in classrooms where they listen, watch, and talk with children, then use what they learn to create lessonned to meet children where they are and lead them into the world of writing. The authors make a case for a broader definition of writing, advocating for formal storytelling sessions, in which children tell about what they know, and for focused sketching sessions so that budding writers learn how to observe more carefully. The book's lessons are organized by topic and include oral storytelling, drawing, writing words, assessment, introducing booklets, and moving writers forward. Based on the authors' work in urban kindergarten and first-grade classes, the essence and structure of many of the lessons lend themselves to adaptation through fifth grade. The lessons follow a consistent format: what's going on in the classroom; what children need to learn next; the materials needed; the actual language used in the lesson; when children's literature is used, reasons for choosing the books and suggestions for other books; suggestions for other lessons. Martha and Mary Ellen show the thinking behind their teaching decisions and provide a way to look at and assess children's writing, giving us much more than a book of lessons; they present a vision of what beginning writing can look and sound like. Perhaps most powerfully, they give us examples of the language they use with children that reveal a genuine respect for and trust in children as learners.
Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master "whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness" and "thin, plain, tense, sour" Alice B. Toklas, the "worker bee" who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate "marriage." As Malcolm pursues the truth of Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our Youngest Writers download PDF the couple's charmed life in a village in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth. "The instability of human knowledge is one of our few certainties," she writes. The portrait of the legendary couple that emerges from this work is unexpectedly charged. The two world wars Stein and Toklas lived through together are paralleled by the private war that went on between them. This war, as Malcolm learned, sometimes flared into bitter combat. Two Lives is also a work of literary criticism. "Even the most hermetic of [Stein's] writings are works of submerged autobiography," Malcolm writes.
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Author: Martha Horn,Mary Ellen Giacobbe
Number of Pages: 272 pages
Published Date: 30 Jul 2007
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Publication Country: York, Maine, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781571104564
Download Link: Click Here
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