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Puranik, Cynthia; Duncan, Molly; Li, Hongli; Ying, Guo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Despite increasing pressure for children to learn to write at younger ages, there are many unanswered questions about composition skills in early elementary school. The goal of this research was to examine the dimensionality of composition skills in kindergarten children, thereby adding to current knowledge about the measurement of young…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
Puranik, Cynthia; Duncan, Molly; Li, Hongli; Guo, Ying – Grantee Submission, 2020
Despite increasing pressure for children to learn to write at younger ages, there are many unanswered questions about composition skills in early elementary school. The goal of this research was to examine the dimensionality of composition skills in kindergarten children, thereby adding to current knowledge about the measurement of young…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
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Guo, Ying; Sun, Shuyan; Puranik, Cynthia; Breit-Smith, Allison – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2018
Background: Research suggests that considerable individual differences may exist among preschool children in terms of emergent writing performance. However, there is no study examining this variability. Objective: This research explored the patterns of within-group individual differences in the emergent writing skills of preschool children.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Beginning Writing, Writing Skills, Preschool Children
Kim, Young-Suk; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Folsom, Jessica S.; Greulich, Luana; Puranik, Cynthia – Grantee Submission, 2014
Purpose: This study examined dimensions of written composition by using multiple evaluative approaches such as an adapted 6 + 1 trait scoring, syntactic complexity measures, and productivity measures. It further examined unique relations of oral language and literacy skills to the identified dimensions of written composition. Method: A large…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Writing (Composition), Oral Language
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Kim, Young-Suk; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Folsom, Jessica S.; Greulich, Luana; Puranik, Cynthia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: This study examined dimensions of written composition by using multiple evaluative approaches such as an adapted 6 + 1 trait scoring, syntactic complexity measures, and productivity measures. It further examined unique relations of oral language and literacy skills to the identified dimensions of written composition. Method: A large…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Writing (Composition), Oral Language
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Kim, Young-Suk; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Puranik, Cynthia; Folsom, Jessica Sidler; Greulich, Luana; Wagner, Richard K. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The present study examined the components of end of kindergarten writing, using data from 242 kindergartners. Specifically of interest was the importance of spelling, letter writing fluency, reading, and word- and syntax-level oral language skills in writing. The results from structural equation modeling revealed that oral language, spelling, and…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Beginning Writing, Spelling, Structural Equation Models