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Harris, Yvette R.; Schroeder, Valarie M. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2012
Forty middle-class American mothers and their preschool children were observed in a narrative activity which involved telling a story using the Berenstain Bears Play Set as a stimulus. The goal of the study was to examine the presence of story grammar elements in both maternal and preschool narratives. In addition, the study sought to explore the…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, School Readiness, Reading Readiness, Mothers
Keislar, Evan R.; And Others – 1971
How soon does a child learn to discriminate orthographic units in his written language as distinguished from a general form-discrimination ability. A discrimination test of letters, words, or characters, in three written languages, Chinese, Hindi, and English, at three age levels, from four to five and a half years was given to 153 middle class…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Child Development, Chinese, Cognitive Development