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Papers

• "Drawing/Writing: A brain-based writing program designed to develop descriptive, analytical and inferential thinking skills at the elementary school level," 1990 dissertation, UMASS School of Education doctoral program:Amherst, MA.

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Books and Hands-On Exercises

• The Thinking Child: A handbook for parents: A quick overview of Neuroconstructivist theory and the 5-step Drawing/Writing practice. - downloadable pdf version
• Excerpt from Drawing/Writing and the new literacy
• • "Preliminary Drawing/Writing" exercises
  • Drawing/Writing exercise from Families and Drawing: Marks and Mind

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• Excerpts from Saving Literacy:
  • The Stages of Scribbling, page 74
  • The Stages of Drawing, page 75
  • Lesson Plans for a Marks-based Literacy Program, pages 138-139
  • Toward a Peaceable Kingdom, pages 223 - 230

• Exercises from HandMade Marks:
  • Looking at Early marks: Cave Paintings and Searching for Meaning (wolves), page 92 - 93
  • Looking at Early marks: Cave Paintings and Searching for Meaning (lizard), page 94 - 95
  • Looking at Early marks: Cave Paintings and Searching for Meaning (spirals), page 96 - 97
  • Lesson Plans for a Marks-based Literacy Program, page 160
  • Warm-up exercises for parents , page 161
  • Lesson Plans, pages 174-175
  • Basic Scribbles
  • Basic Shapes
  • Printing the Alphabet:
    • A-I
    • J-S
    • S-Z