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ERIC Number: EJ397622
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Reading the World and Writing Sympathy Cards.
Power, Brenda Miller
Language Arts, v66 n6 p644-49 Oct 1989
Describes a "literate occasion," when the death of a teacher's grandmother gave her fourth-grade students the chance to use their reading and writing skills for a purpose--to support their teacher. Emphasizes the importance of showing students the power of literacy in their lives and the lives of others. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Literacy Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Literacy Events; Purpose (Composition); Sympathy; Writing Tasks
Note: Theme Issue: Literacies.