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Direct linkStuart, Morag; Dixon, Maureen; Masterson, Jackie – Educational Psychology, 2004
This paper investigated six to nine year old children's ability to use contractive and possessive apostrophes, the effects of type and token frequency, and the effect of teaching on this ability. Apostrophes provide an interesting opportunity to examine the basis of frequency effects in rule inference, as type and token frequencies dissociate in…
Descriptors: Punctuation, Elementary School Students, Reading Materials, Literacy Education
Whyte, Donna – Crystal Springs Books, 2004
Experienced educator Donna Whyte has compiled her ideas for using film containers in the classroom into "131 Ways to Use Film Containers" so that they can be shared with other teachers. She includes engaging ways to use them in teaching children about word families, sight words, and punctuation marks; skip counting, estimating, and predicting; and…
Descriptors: Nonprint Media, Literacy Education, Sight Vocabulary, Punctuation
