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When Third Graders Write Letters to College Pen Pals: An Analysis of Genre and Intertextual Understandings.
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Jenkins, Carol Brennan; Earle, Alice Altfillisch – 1999
A study analyzed 368 letters (179 children letters and 189 adult letters) in order to document children's thinking about the substance of the epistolary genre and to determine the influence of the adult pen pal letters on the children's letters. Students, 19 third graders and 19 college students, were randomly paired as pen pals. Establishing six…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, College Students, Elementary School Students, Grade 3