Mary ann Graziani

Writing in the Elementary Classroom

Descriptions of Steps of The Writing Process Step #1: Prewriting - Prewriting begins the moment you start to collect ideas. During this stage, writers explore and develop ideas into topics to write about. Prewriting techniques can help you explore ideas and pinpoint possible topics that will interest readers. These techniques include listing, questioning, and clustering/webbing. Step #2: Drafting - Drafting... (posted by Mary ann 3 years 136 days ago.)

Family and Community Involvement

Many methods for family and community involvement exist to benefit the learning environment. The professional educator seeks and develops ways to involve the families of students in the classroom. The educator also seeks to involve the community in the school, which can be ignited in several ways. The first way to spark this participation is to communicate. Only a teacher's time, effort, and creativity limit the methods... (posted by Mary ann 3 years 137 days ago.)

Educating the Homesless Students

The word homelessness has different meanings to different people. For this article I will give a social definition, economic definition and a personal definition of homeless people in general and a definition of the homeless child. The Steward B. McKinney Act, 42 U.S.C. 11301 (1994) defines homelessness as a person who "lacks a fixed, regular, adequate night-time residence and has a night-time residency that is: 1.... (posted by Mary ann 3 years 137 days ago.)