Development of Writing Skills in Children in Diverse Cultural Contexts: Contributions to Teaching and Learning (Paperback, 2023)

Chapter 1. Development, teaching and learning of writing: from word to text.- Part I. Spelling, vocabulary and grammar in written texts.- Chapter 2. Learning to spell in Brazilian Portuguese: children´s patterns of spelling errors and unconventional word segmentation.- Chapter 3. Grammar as a resource for developing metalinguistic understanding about writing.- Chapter 4. The role of grammar and vocabulary for writing instruction in school.- Part II. The composition processes of writing texts.- Chapter 5. "Who is going to read the story that I have written?" The role of the audience in textual revision made by children.- Chapter 6. The effect of low-level writing process on written narrative textual competence in kindergarten and primary school children.- Chapter 7. Grammatical choices and narrative quality in the collaborative writing of primary school students.- Chapter 8. The development of rhetorical preferences in the analytical writing of Spanish students from elementary to highereducation.- Part III. Difficulties in acquiring and developing writing skills.- Chapter 9. Morphological analysis and its impact on written language development in children with and without language disorders.- Chapter 10. Difficulties in acquiring and developing writing skills.- Part IV. Writing practices in different social environments.- Chapter 11. Nurturing writing of narrative and expository texts at the preschool level.- Chapter 12. Writing technique or writing culture? Representations of writing among children and teachers at high achievement schools in Chile.- Chapter 13. Rewriting the book: new literacy practices and their implications for teaching and evaluating writing.- Part V. Teaching and learning writing in the classroom.- Chapter 14. Teaching writing through discourse genres.- Chapter 15. Teaching of argumentative writing in Romance languages: a meta-analysis.- Chapter 16. The Chilean National Writing Plan: rationale, actions and preliminary results.- Chapter 17. Effects of research-based teacher training on writing instruction practices.- Chapter 18. Writing to understand and being understood: basic design principles for writing instruction.- Index.