Here Richard-Amato discusses the difference between bottom-up and top-down approaches to teaching literacy. The benefits of top-down approaches are that they emphasize a whole, real and natural approach. Similar to Elizabeth's presentation Monday on oral storytelling and literacy, this chapter suggests introducing meaningful language at its most simple forms which can start with a picture book from which the teacher can help a student write a story.
In terms of skills integration, we see again the role of story experience as a useful tool as it incorporates several different skills and can spark natural curiosity which then can motivate communication.
One great item to take away: "Error correction for developing writers should focus on meaning and go beyond a line-by-line, word-by-word analysis".
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