From Oral to Written Language: Preschool Children Dictating Stories.

Pontecorvo, Clotilde; Zucchermaglio, Cristina

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Publication Date: 1989

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From Oral to Written Language: Preschool Children Dictating Stories.

Pontecorvo, Clotilde; Zucchermaglio, Cristina

Journal of Reading Behavior, v21 n2 p109-26 1989

Examines beginning readers' story dictation processes and products over a 16-month period. Investigates level of story structure, conventional expressions, internal responses, spatial-temporal setting, verb tenses, variety of tenses, connectives, anaphora, and dictation process adapting to a scribe. Finds overall development in ability to contextualize the language in the text. (RS)

Descriptors: Dictation, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Oral Language, Preschool Education, Reading Research, Story Grammar, Story Telling, Text Structure, Written Language

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Italy

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