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Engaging Young Writers, Preschool-Grade 1
As teachers, we do indeed live narrative lives, and if you read Engaging Young Writers, Preschool to Grade 1 , Matt Glover will help you live out new kinds of stories with the children you teach. I know he's helped me do just that. I'm a better teacher because of what I've learned from him.
Katie Wood Ray
Author of About the Authors We are so fortunate to have this book. Matt shares his deep understanding of young writers, presents a thoughtful and warm approach to teaching writing, and shows us how to nudge children in ways that are considerate of their interests and intentions as well as their intellectual development.
-Kathy Collins
Author of Growing Readers Many children come to school wanting to write. But some are unsure about getting started or don't realize they have something to say. Motivating students to put markers to paper is the key that unlocks a lifetime of writing. Engaging Young Writers presents a range of entry points that help every student find a way into writing. In Engaging Young Writers, Matt Glover (coauthor of Already Ready ) presents ways to encourage students to pick up the pen and share their remarkable thinking. With multiple entry points for writers, he helps you match your teaching to children's individual interests and patterns of learning. Glover shows how you Engaging Young Writers features teaching tested in real classrooms and the student samples to back it up. Glover takes special care to address how his ideas can be applied to the unique developmental needs of writers in preschool, kindergarten, and grade one. Inside every child is a writer. Inside you is the desire to give children a great start. Inside Engaging Young Writers is the teaching to help you create that wonderful moment when your students decide to become the writer within.
Katie Wood Ray
Author of About the Authors We are so fortunate to have this book. Matt shares his deep understanding of young writers, presents a thoughtful and warm approach to teaching writing, and shows us how to nudge children in ways that are considerate of their interests and intentions as well as their intellectual development.
-Kathy Collins
Author of Growing Readers Many children come to school wanting to write. But some are unsure about getting started or don't realize they have something to say. Motivating students to put markers to paper is the key that unlocks a lifetime of writing. Engaging Young Writers presents a range of entry points that help every student find a way into writing. In Engaging Young Writers, Matt Glover (coauthor of Already Ready ) presents ways to encourage students to pick up the pen and share their remarkable thinking. With multiple entry points for writers, he helps you match your teaching to children's individual interests and patterns of learning. Glover shows how you Engaging Young Writers features teaching tested in real classrooms and the student samples to back it up. Glover takes special care to address how his ideas can be applied to the unique developmental needs of writers in preschool, kindergarten, and grade one. Inside every child is a writer. Inside you is the desire to give children a great start. Inside Engaging Young Writers is the teaching to help you create that wonderful moment when your students decide to become the writer within.
160 pages, Paperback
First published February 27, 2009
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March 24, 2017
Glover is the principal of an early childhood center, grades prek-1. He often spends time in classrooms, engaging in literacy lessons and has studied was to get students to view themselves as authors. He opens by discussing developmentally appropriate practices at each grade level looks like and then spends the bulk of the book discussing engagement strategies. Each chapter explores a strategy in depth and describes what it looks like in the different grade levels. I love that each engagement strategy, including several for reluctant writers, are very simple and mainly involve different types of interactions with or among students. This is a book I will definitely be sharing with the teachers I coach!
October 20, 2021
Some really nice, and easily applicable ideas for helping children become interested in writing. Not necessarily ground breaking though.
September 16, 2013
Matt Glover is such and expert at primary writing. He often works with Katie Ray. Their approach to the real ways young children can make BIG work through writing workshop is fantastic. It is an easy read and very helpful for those who want to jump in and get started.
March 13, 2011
This is a wonderful book that reminds us to facilitate writing by helping students get to know writers through their writing. It would be a wonderful book study paired with In Pictures and Words.
December 2, 2012
A great book for teachers of 3-7 year olds. Really simple yet effective ideas to make writing a natural activity in your classroom.
January 11, 2013
Well there were some things i liked and some i didn't. I do wonder where his editor was. Furthermore why are students who aren't specified always she and teachers always he?
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