Groups responses of writing scholars to a question concerning what has been learned about the teaching and learning of writing in the elementary school into four categories: writing is a "gateway" to literacy; all children can write; understanding writers and writing means understanding complex influences; and writers write so that they…

This article describes ways that conversations constituted ethnographic research for students and teachers in Kazakhstan. Through dialogues with local community members, students worked as researchers to develop knowledge about cultural patterns and social life. Ethnographic research and writing provided valuable language and research experiences…

Describes a successful workshop approach to teaching writing which uses elementary school students' own papers to teach ways to refine writing skills. (DD)

Describes several activities which might be used in inservice courses to help language arts teachers experience the process of writing. (DD)

Describes a year-long program to help five- and six-year olds create and appreciate literature. (DD)

Describes how a group of teachers of grades three through eight initiated and carried out a project that reformed their school's writing curriculum. (ARH)

Suggests that writing conferences can help students become less teacher-dependent in their writing. (DD)

Offers seven guidelines to follow when submitting student work for publication. Lists and discusses magazines for children. (RL)

Examines findings of research focusing on writing as a process. (DD)

Describes a program in which students meet with and listen to authors. (DD)

Describes the benefits of having preschoolers take photographs and caption them. (DD)

Suggests films which help get children excited about oral and written expression. (DD)

The reactions of children to a written interchange that they redid by co-opting riddles, that is a genre which is unavoidably dialogic, is focused. The research conducted for the same through exchange of e-mail letters is discussed in detail.