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Literacy-Related Abilities' Effects on Argumentative Text Quality Structure
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Stavans, Anat; Seroussi, Batia; Zadunaisky Ehrlich, Sara – Journal of Literacy Research, 2019
Writing argumentative texts is a hallmark of literacy attainments with a long and laborious trajectory. The present study explored the incipient stages in argumentative texts written by 293 Hebrew-speaking Israeli children in second, third, fourth, and fifth grades. The literacy cognitive, transcriptional, linguistic, and reading abilities were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Skills, Literacy
Relations between Literacy-Related Abilities and the Lexical Quality of Expository Texts of Hebrew-Speaking Children (Relaciones entre habilidades relacionadas con el aprendizaje de la lengua escrita y la calidad léxica de los textos expositivos de niños hebreo-parlantes)
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Seroussi, Batia; Stavans, Anat; Zadunaisky-Ehrlich, Sara – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
This study sought to explore the advanced lexicon, one of the hallmarks of text quality. To this end, we analysed the advanced lexicon deployed in the production of two types of texts -- a descriptive and an argumentative -- by Hebrew-speaking school children. Our study had two goals, the first to trace the developmental path of the use of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Hebrew, Vocabulary Development, Writing Skills