The Importance of Mother Jones

by Madelyn Horton

At a time when everyone seems to regard the state of writing instruction with despair, the appearance of this book is especially welcome. Here is an engaging and enlightening look back at how eight leading teachers and researchers from the past succeeded with the teaching of writing. The crisis over writing ability is hardly new, John Brereton observes, and over the past eighty years educators have worked to devise appropriate theories and techniques,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560060573
• ISBN13: 9781560060574
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Lucent Books
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7