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Peer reviewedHipple, Marjorie L. – Language Arts, 1985
Discusses efforts at teaching children in kindergarten how to write, indicating that emergent readers can indeed write with scribbles, random letters, numerals, and sometimes words. Discusses their dictation, journal content, writing stages, and developmental trends. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten
Peer reviewedHall, Susan E. M. – Language Arts, 1985
Describes how kindergarten children use invented spelling to rewrite Mother Goose nursery rhymes, indicating the phoneme grapheme system the children perceived from spoken language. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Kindergarten, Nursery Rhymes, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Peer reviewedCambourne, Brian – English in Australia, 1983
Relates some of the observations made of a kindergarten classroom over a two-year period in which teachers simulated as many conditions as possible with respect to a natural "learning-how-to-write" situation. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Kindergarten
Peer reviewedPiazza, Carolyn L.; Tomlinson, Carl M. – Language Arts, 1985
Illustrates how school writing environments that encourage talk between peers can help children learn about writing and the writing process. Describes recurring patterns of language behavior at a kindergarten writing table and shows how children's natural conversations are often reminiscent of adult-child interaction in the home. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Early Childhood Education
Download full textKing, Martha L.; Rentel, Victor M. – 1982
Presenting a longitudinal study of factors influencing the text-forming strategies children employ in early stages of writing development, this report focuses on the differences between children's oral and written texts and the development of writing ability. The first two chapters present cohesion results, with the first chapter providing…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cohesion (Written Composition), Developmental Stages
Dyson, 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
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
