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Any Child Can Write 4th Edition

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Harvey S. Wiener shows how parents can encourage their children to write with a home program that can be used from preschool through high school. Beginning with the building of attitudes, Wiener moves through simple, varied and practical experience with the written word. By setting up an atmosphere in the home that encourages creative written expression, coupled with a parent's guidance in writing, children gain an outlook on writing that builds confidence in their abilities to use language.
This new edition addresses many heated issues about children's education and touches on today's critical debates: parents' roles in school preparations, the increased stress on writing assessment and performance measures throughout a child's education and across school sectors, and the debate over phonics. A revised and expanded section called "Key Books for Young Writers and Their Parents" will help any family stock its shelves with useful books for a home writing program.
A new chapter discusses the ubiquity of home computers and word processing programs and assesses their positive and negative influences on children's home learning experiences. In addition, Wiener describes how to find the best educational online resources and how to supervise a child's work on the Internet. Furthermore, he emphasizes the importance of collaboration--child and parent, child and sibling--to help avoid computer abuse and establish good computer practices. Finally, he integrates discussion on computers through the text, and also offers writing exercises and samples for children to obtain from Oxford's website.

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0195153162
ISBN-13

978-0195153163
Edition

4th
Publisher

Oxford University Press
Publication date

February 6, 2003
Language

English
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8.14 x 5.46 x 0.74 inches
Print length

384 pages
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"Engaging.... [Wiener] makes the job a serious kind of child's play, with some of the gratification instant to both parent and child."--Christian Science Monitor (on previous edition)

"Absolutely the best book ever written, and quite possibly the best that ever will be written, on teaching children to write."-Mary Pride, author of The New Big Book of Home Learning (on previous edition)

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The popular home program that lets parents teach their children to write, now in a new edition

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 4th edition (February 6, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195153162
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195153163
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.14 x 5.46 x 0.74 inches

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Renee Frahm

Inspiring Resource

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2014

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This book has some great ideas for inspiring children to become interested in the written word.
I purchased this as a teacher resource alongside another curriculum, and it has helped me understand how to approach writing (and reading) from a written word perspective rather than just alphabet and phonics based instruction.
Recommended reading for parents and teachers - anyone who is wanting to help children learn to write.

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S. Jackson

A great find! Just as advertised

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2018

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A great find!
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D. Cumberland

This book is seriously outdated

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2013

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I have both the pre-2003 revision in paperback and a revised Kindle edition of this book. The attempted update (at least in Kindle format) is seriously deficient in keeping up with the times. The formatting itself is inconsistent and poorly done. There was at least one sentence that ended in mid-air; I'm not sure where the remainder of the thought went, but something went wrong in the formatting. The spacing also moves around oddly and some parts are right-justified inexplicably. In attempting to bring the book up to 21st-century standards, the revision falls incredibly far short. For instance, there is still a sentence that says something like, "For the child lucky enough to have a computer in their home..." For real? I know 5-year-olds who have their own iPad.

I did not finish reading this book. In fact, I couldn't get much past the Introduction. I don't know if there's a gold-mine of great ideas in the remainder of the book because the earliest part of the book is so far out of step with the needs of parents today and what writing avenues are sensible for kids of today. I'm also skeptical that the author has any idea that some kids don't gravitate towards writing just because you had them help make grocery lists when they were 5. Some kids appear to have the genetic information from their father, say, who cannot write (handwriting), spell or compose in a legible, grammatically correct way, rather than having the genetic information of their mother, who wrote stories and poems at 11 years old. Just for a hypothetical, example.

It's unfortunate; I really wanted this book to be useful to me. The only reason I give it 2 stars and not 1 is because I didn't read the whole book, so perhaps it gets better later on.

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Asra Baig

It can transform your reluctant writer into an expressive persuader.

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2020

This book has the potential to help a child that would not write beyond "I'm fine" to one who can give detailed narrative about a person, place or thing. While teaching mine and a few other kids for fun during summer, I found my own writing skills improve. The principles explained in this book are the same as the ones I later saw in great college essay samples.

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Cheryl Ann Roatch

A great addition to the home library

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2003

As a home schooler of seven plus years, we have been using the suggestions and ideas in this book for the past couple of years and have found them most effective. Our children enjoy the activities and I have noticed an improvement in their writing skills which I am sure is due, in part, to these activities. The book itself is a very easy read and I would highly recommend this book to anyone. It's a great resource for those just beginning home schooling and, for those already established, provides some new ideas to add to their programme. For those not home schooling it will assist parents who are eager to help their children improve their writing skills. Well done Mr Wiener and thank you!

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