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ERIC Number: EJ595754
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1082-3301
Beginners Learning Together: Literacy Collaboration between Preservice Teachers and First-Grade Students.
Marshall, Carol Sue; Davis, Ruth A.
Early Childhood Education Journal, v27 n1 p53-56 Fall 1999
Describes a course that linked first-grade students using emergent writing skills with university early-childhood majors studying the process of emergent literacy, and, in so doing provided an authentic and meaningful learning context for both groups. Suggests that the pen-pal project demonstrates the value of interactive writing exchanges. (Author)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Writing, Early Reading, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies, Preservice Teachers, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Pen Pals