ocr: Whole Language: Philosophy to Practice Page 1 Calkins and Graves also stress the importance of publishing children's writing. Publishing is a means by which a special piece of writing is put in a form in which it can be shared with the public. For example, the finished product may be bound in the form of a book and put in a classroom library where others may read it. Graves suggests that publishing contributes to a child's development as a writer, in that the writer has a record of his/her writing; contributes to a child's sense of audience, in that the writing is shared with others; helps at ...