Developing Writing Skills in Children: A Project with a Fourteen Year Old Boy

Authors

  • Flannan Geaney

Keywords:

Writing Skills, Literacy, Story Writing, Functional and Personal Writing, Expression, English, Teaching Strategies, Teaching Methodologies

Abstract

This Paper describes how the method of story writing was used to dramatically improve a fourteen-year-old boy's functional and personal writing skills, and in the process facilitate the shift from concrete, 'here and now' thinking, to 'other-perspective' more imaginative forms of expression. John (not his real name) will be used throughout the text when referring to the individual in question. 

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Published

1997-11-11

How to Cite

Geaney, F. (1997). Developing Writing Skills in Children: A Project with a Fourteen Year Old Boy. REACH: Journal of Inclusive Education in Ireland, 11(1), 54–60. Retrieved from https://reachjournal.ie/index.php/reach/article/view/362

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (1997)

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