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Reading Horizons Volume 37, Issue 3 1997 Article 3 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1997 A Kindergarten Writing Workshop: How Kindergarten Students Grow as Writers Marjorie Hertz Warren Heydenberk Muhlenberg College Lehigh University c Copyright 1997 by the authors. Reading Horizons is produced by The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress). /reading horizons A Kindergarten Writing Workshop: How Kindergarten Students Grow as Writers Marjorie Hertz and Warren Heydenberk Abstract The emergence of process writing and the advent of whole language during the 1980’s chal- lenged the 50 year practice of focusing on reading before teaching writing to young children. Today, writing as well as reading is clearly of great interest from the earliest stages of literacy development. A A Kindergarten Writing Workshop: How Kindergarten Students Grow as Writers Marjorie Hertz Warren Heydenberk The emergence of process writing and the advent of whole language during the 1980s challenged the 50 year prac tice of focusing on reading before teaching writing to young children. Today, writing as well as reading is clearly of great interest from the earliest stages of literacy development. Kindergarten children are clearly ready to benefit from a program that builds on their emerging language abilities (Calkins, 1994). Studies have investigated short intervals of writing in kindergarten (Teale and Martinez, 1986), the devel opment