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Goodman, Yetta M. – 1980
Designed to reveal children's awareness of print and use of contextual clues and to discover their metalinguistic awareness, language use, and attitudes toward reading and writing, this instrument consists of six tasks. The first three, print awareness tasks, present familiar labels and signs with different degrees of contextuality. The fourth and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Context Clues, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedMorrison, Delmont; And Others – Annals of Dyslexia, 1988
The accuracy of SEARCH for identifying children at risk for developing learning disabilities was evaluated with 1,107 kindergarten children. Children identified as at risk were of average intelligence. SEARCH scores were significantly correlated with sequential and simultaneous information processing skills. SEARCH predicted adequacy of…
Descriptors: Concurrent Validity, Early Childhood Education, Handicap Identification, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedRichgels, Donald J. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1986
Explains how to administer and score a test of early spelling ability, how to assess what the test revealed at the beginning of the school year about 26 first graders' knowledge of the function of letters in written language, and how to use that information in "natural" writing projects. (HOD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Informal Assessment
Peer reviewedNewton, Douglas P. – Educational Studies, 1995
Maintains that pictures are one constant aspect of children's books. Reviews research on whether pictures hinder or facilitate the development of reading skills in young children. Provides suggestions on when and where pictures might provide instructional support. (CFR)
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Early Childhood Education
