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Ray, Karen; Dally, Kerry; Rowlandson, Leah; Tam, Kit Iong; Lane, Alison E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Evidence supports a link between handwriting and aspects of literacy, including both reading and writing. Most evidence, however, pertains to children from grade one and above, once foundation skills known to support emerging literacy have been established. The purpose of this systematic review is to synthesise the extant literature concerning…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Ability, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Foorman, Barbara R. – School Psychology Review, 1995
Reviews "Great Debate" over code emphasis versus meaning emphasis in reading instruction, concluding incidental instruction provided by writing activities of whole language do not guarantee alphabetic understanding. Attempts to disassociate instruction in alphabetic coding from criticism of components of whole-language instruction and challenges…
Descriptors: Children, Letters (Alphabet), Phonology, Reading Instruction
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Daniels, Peter T. – 1986
The evolution of writing systems of the Aramaic languages is discussed, stressing the importance of looking beyond simple character forms as they occur in space and time to the interaction of scripts with languages, and the interactions of writing systems with minds and civilizations. First, the invention of the alphabet is discussed from a…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Diachronic Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Morphology (Languages)