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Download full textMason, Jana M.; Stewart, Janice – 1988
A study examined preschool children's awareness of literacy. Subjects included 18 children from 2 classrooms of prekindergarten children who lived in a black, inner-city neighborhood and attended a school that believed in providing formal reading and writing instruction in the prekindergarten year. Subjects were asked how they were learning, how…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Early Reading
Mason, Jana M.; Allen, JoBeth – 1986
Defining emergent as the process of becoming and literacy as the interrelatedness of reading and writing in young children's development, this paper reviews emergent literacy research and relates it to beginning reading and writing instruction. The first section of the paper describes the social and linguistic contexts for literacy, reviewing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition
McCormick, Christine; Mason, Jana M. – 1986
A study was conducted to evaluate the impact of predictable stories given to children from low-income families over a two-year period. Phase one subjects were all the children (N=52) from four Headstart classes; phase two subjects were all the children who had participated in phase 1 and who entered kindergarten after their last year in Headstart.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Early Intervention, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy
