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Fernando Núñez-Regueiro; Natacha Boissicat; Fanny Gimbert; Céline Pobel-Burtin; Marie-Caroline Croset; Marie-Line Bosse; Cécile Nurra – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Research suggests that providing children with activities that involve using their bodies to form the shapes of letters can help them acquire pre-reading skills. Little is known, however, as to the extent to which such embodied learning interventions are superior to more traditional pencil-and-paper activities, which of specific arm or body…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Physical Activities, Movement Education
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Fischer, Jean-Paul; Luxembourger, Christophe – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Young children, who are exposed to Latin script letters, experience difficulties in distinguishing between the reversible letters b and d and may therefore transform b into d (and vice versa). When children begin to write, in cultures with left-to-right writing/reading systems, they also often turn Arabic digits in the direction of…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Emergent Literacy, Elementary School Science, Grade 1
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Thomas, Aude; Tazouti, Youssef – Education 3-13, 2023
Children develop early literacy and numeracy skills from an early age. The primary aim of the current study is to examen links between early literacy skills and early numeracy skills during preschool education in France. This study involves 313 kindergarten students (152 girls and 161 boys), aged between 3.44 and 7.02 years (mean age = 5.07 years,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Numeracy, Preschool Children
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Helal, Suha; Weil-Barais, Annick – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
The present study investigated the general cognitive determinants of alphabetic letter knowledge. It involved 60 French kindergarten children (mean age: five years six months). Two test batteries were used: the CMS to evaluate general cognitive abilities (memory, attention, and learning), and the LKT to assess letter knowledge and its various…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten, Cognitive Ability