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Peer reviewedHannon, Peter; James, Sue – British Educational Research Journal, 1990
Interviews 40 British parents and their children's nursery school teachers, concerning parental involvement in children's preschool reading and writing. Reveals parents frequently assist and direct their children in language arts activities but do not feel confident and teachers expressed doubts about parental interest. Shows need for greater…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Reading, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Furniss, Elaine R. – 1983
To determine how children develop schema for text that include increasing sensitivity to text types, text categories, orthographic conventions in words, conventional story beginnings and endings, and text cohesive ties, a study examined the writing of four kindergarten children. The kindergarten had adopted a process-conference approach to writing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques
Download full textDyson, Anne Haas – 1987
Focusing on children's developmental use of written language in kindergarten and first grade, this report looks at connections between the social and academic dimensions of classroom life. The first section examines literacy as an aspect of growing up and becoming a member of society. By highlighting the social and academic divisiveness schooling…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Environment
Seagraves, Margaret C. – 1995
The purpose of this research study was to build and pilot a psychometric instrument, the Primary Childhood School Success Scale (PCSSS), to identify behaviors needed for children to be successful in first grade. Fifty-two teacher responses were collected. The instrument had a reliability coefficient (Alpha) of 0.95, a mean of 13.26, and a variance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Gundlach, Robert A. – 1982
A synthesis of current research, theory, and professional opinion on how children learn to write, this report begins with a brief introduction followed by a discussion of writing readiness that suggests children's eagerness to learn to write. The third chapter examines children's use of writing to extend the functions of speech, drawing, and play,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
Lundsteen, Sara W. – 1986
Stressing the importance of understanding child development, this paper first describes the writing of several children in a kindergarten class who represent various levels of emerging literacy. Based on the descriptions of classroom activities, the paper argues that with a developmental perspective the teacher can build instruction on what the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Developmental Stages, Early Reading
