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Graham, Steve; Berninger, Virginia; Abbott, Robert – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2012
This study examined whether attitude toward writing is a unique and separable construct from attitude toward reading for young beginning writers. Participants were 128 first-grade children (70 girls and 58 boys) and 113 third-grade students (57 girls and 56 boys). We individually administered to each child a 24-item attitude measure that contained…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 3, Primary Education
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Berninger, Virginia; And Others – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1992
Finds that lower-level developmental variables are related to beginning writing skills. Identifies an orthographic-linguistic dimension and an automaticity dimension in the battery of developmental skills and writing products. (RS)
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Developmental Stages, Primary Education, Writing (Composition)
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Graham, Steve; Weintraub, Naomi; Berninger, Virginia – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
Examined manuscript letter writing skills of students in Grades 1-3. Three letter characteristics, grade, and alphabet fluency each made a significant contribution to the prediction of letter legibility after effects of other predictors were controlled. Letter legibility in turn made a significant contribution to the prediction of text legibility…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Childrens Writing, Handwriting, Letters (Alphabet)