Reprint of a discussion, in 1936, by the president of the National Council of Teachers of English, of the importance of teaching composition. (DD)

Urges teachers to write constructive comments on students' compositions. (DD)

Discusses 10 rules of thumb for writing educational research reports that are concise and accessible. The principles include writing in terms of people, emphasizing the positive, editing for simplicity, and breaking any of the previously discussed rules when necessary. (HTH)

Suggests that certain kinds of writing assignments encourage children to engage in writing at a higher than usual level of syntactic complexity. (DD)

Writing is difficult for students who are learning English, as they often struggle to express what they really want to say. Writing is difficult for their teachers, too, who often struggle to respond in ways that are helpful. In this article, the authors offer an approach that looks at students' writing from a functional linguistics perspective,…

In interviews, first graders share their views on who they are as writers.

This article focuses on a collaborative project between two fifth-grade dual language teachers (English-Spanish) and a university researcher as they engaged children in a study of memoir. The bilingual children in these classes cultivated their genre knowledge by participating in the ways of writers of memoir through the careful adaptations the…

Children must develop a sense of audience, learn what writing is for, evaluate their own writing, and have a self-felt purpose for writing. (DD)

Describes and defends Koch's approach to teaching students how to write poetry. (DD)

Explores activities described in ERIC documents that are designed to create in the student an awareness of audience beyond the classroom setting. (HTH)

Uses conversations with children to illustrate the vital role that writing plays in spelling development from kindergarten to the end of sixth grade. Looks at how good spellers approach words with the eyes of a writer, how writers take responsibility for their spelling, and how one writer described the link between spelling and writing for an…

A new procedure to assist students in selecting topics and organizing information for planning is developed in the multigenre research. Writing a brief report on the research with passion and purpose is one of the important aspects in this research.

The four stages of writing development in the elementary grades are writing readiness, dictation, independent writing, and language experimentation. (DD)