Category Archive: Writing

Explore resources in the 'Writing' category below:

Understanding Writing and Its Relationship to Reading

Brian Cambourne Turbill, J. Barton, G. & Brock, C. [eds] Teaching Writing in Today's Classrooms: Looking back to look forward, pp 26-40, 2015 published by ALEA In this chapter Brian Cambourne shares key messages that focus on the nature of effective writing and...

Berry Book Club: Engaging readers and writers

Jan Turbill, Susan McAuliffe and Brett Sutton 2015 Turbill, J. Barton, G. & Brock, C. [eds] Teaching Writing in Today's Classrooms: Looking back to look forward, pp 181-197 published by ALEA This chapter reports on how three educators set up a successful Book...

Review of Developing a Spelling Conscience

Jan Turbill Language Arts 77, (3), 2000 This paper foregrounds the significant place the process of proofreading has in developing a spelling conscience in learners. Most teachers expect students to engage in the process of proofreading but few explicitly teach the...