Keeping in Touch

Offering insights into the numerous ways in which interactive writing can facilitate children's writing skills, this book provides children with enjoyable reasons for authorship, and aids their transition from oral to written communication. Features include: firsthand accounts by classroom teachers of how they use interactive writing with children of all abilities; examples of children's work; and a chapter on organization issues. Nigel Hall is the author of "Writing With Reason: the Emergence of Authorship in Young Children", "Play in the Primary Curriculum" and "The Emergence of Literacy". Anne Robinson is a co-author (with Nigel Hall) of "Some Day You Will No All About Me: Young Children's Explorations in a World of Letters".