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Peer reviewedDyson, Anne Haas – Language Arts, 1986
Presents observations of three children's styles of symbolic language focusing on how each leaned to different degrees on drawing and talking to create their imaginary worlds and thus faced different challenges in rendering those worlds in print. (SRT)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Elementary Education, Freehand Drawing
Download full textJohnson, Virginia M. – 1997
Researchers have reported that children's writing about mathematical concepts can give teachers valuable insight into students' mathematical understanding. There are, however, factors which place constraints on the adequacy of written products to reveal the quality and degree of children's conceptual understanding. This study examined the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Grade 3
Peer reviewedSternberg, Les; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1987
Three profoundly retarded students (ages 6, 8, and 12) were taught prelanguage signalling behaviors (grasping the experimenter's finger and tapping the back of one hand with the other) to initiate co-active imitation behaviors with an adult. (JW)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education, Expressive Language
