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Aram, Dorit; Hazan, Hadar; Levin, Iris – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The study's aims were to (a) evaluate preschoolers' use of private speech (overt talk to themselves) during spelling; and (b) study how it is affected by the nature of orthography. Participants were 197 Hebrew speaking Israeli preschoolers (109 girls and 88 boys) (M = 5.6 years). Children spelled 12 words (N =44 letters) that represented one of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Semitic Languages
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Levin, Iris; Bus, Adriana G. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Compared 28- to 53-month-olds' writing and drawing. Scores on a writing scale composed of graphic, "writing-like," and symbolic schemes improved with age. Recognition of drawings as drawings preceded recognition of writings as writings. Writing and drawing scores were substantially correlated, even with age partialed out, suggesting that…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beginning Writing, Classification, Comparative Analysis