I have found this software keeps my students engaged and encourages self-evaluation. Each set offers a full year's writing curriculum and a wide variety of features. The set's Language Lab disk supplies interactive, multimedia lessons on grammar, usage and mechanics. Naab warned that the software must be used by teachers who really know how to teach writing. What makes a child revise is adequate feedback from other children and teachers, and adequate time and reason to write and revise.
Kids get better by talking about their writing and hearing what other have to say.
Computers create audience where there was none. It is big and visible. Joyce Kasman Valenza is the librarian at Springfield High in Erdenheim. Her column appears each week in tech.life. 1996, Philadelphia Newspapers Inc .