Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Community of Writers: District A, Boston Public Schools, June 1988
The world in which we live abounds with print. Few children can escape the abundance of words that surround them. Children see traffic signs, food labels, captions on television commercials and billboards. They view people filling out forms making lists, and jotting down phone num bers, as well as reading newspapers, magazines and books. Children in today's world are immersed in print.
The world in which children live abounds with the sound of language. From birth and continuing thereafter, young children hear a wide variety of sounds. Children regularly observe people using the spoken word.
Making sense of language in its printed and spoken form is an incredible task which confronts all. Children must learn how to make connections between writ ten scribbles and spoken words, connections between speech and print, connections between words and reality and lastly, connections between the mind of the reader and the mind of the writer. Helping children make the proper connection is the responsibility of effective parents and teachers.
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