Given the recent queries regarding kinder professional books, here's a news item I just received from Stenhouse. Anything by Mary Ellen Giacobbe is going to be good! Elisa Waingort Calgary, Canada
---------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Talking & drawing open the door to writing ---------------------------------------------------------------- "This is a book about responding to children. A book about listening and noticing children. The first move is not the teacher's. Rather, the starting place is the child's practice through language, drawing, and storytelling. This requires great patience, and I was struck by the time markers that breathed through the text. How long does a teacher wait? It could be ten seconds, twenty, thirty--long enough to tell the child you have all the time in the world to listen. This is a book that teachers have been waiting for but didn't know they needed." --Donald Graves Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe, codirectors of Writing in Kindergarten, a professional development project in Boston, have developed a deep understanding of the roles of talking and drawing in learning to write. In Talking, Drawing, Writing they share their work in kindergarten and first-grade classrooms, where storytelling and sketching are key components of literacy instruction. Organized around 46 mini-lessons, Talking, Drawing, Writing will help you establish oral storytelling, drawing, and assessment. You'll learn how to help students write words, introduce booklets, and move students forward as writers through craft and mechanics. Each mini-lesson provides background and context, sample classroom talk, and resources. The book includes an 8-page color insert that beautifully illustrates student work. Talking, Drawing, Writing will be available in print next week, but you can browse the entire book online now: http://www.stenhouse.com/0456.asp?r=n117
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