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Association between Young Chinese Children's Early Writing Skills and the Chinese Preschool Classroom Writing Environment
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Chenyi Zhang; Xiao Zhang; Gary E. Bingham; Liying Zhang – Early Education and Development, 2025
This study describes the early writing environments of 16 preschool classrooms in China and 155 Chinese preschoolers' early writing skills as assessed through name writing, word dictation, and early composing tasks. The classroom early writing environment consists of children's accessibility to writing materials, and teachers' writing instruction.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Preschools, Preschool Children
Sensitivity and Consistency of Maternal Writing Mediation to Twin Kindergartners
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Aram, Dorit – Early Education and Development, 2007
This study investigated whether mothers are responsive to their children's literacy level, thus employing different writing mediation styles with each twin according to the child's level, or whether they possess a consistent style employed with both twins. The sample included 28 sets of twin kindergartners (56 children, M age = 68.89 months) and…
Descriptors: Twins, Mothers, Home Visits, Emergent Literacy
Young Children's Knowledge Building and Literacy Development through Knowledge Forum[R]
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Pelletier, Janette; Reeve, Richard; Halewood, Cindy – Early Education and Development, 2006
This study examined how the use of Knowledge Forum (KF)[R], a networked, Internet-based learning environment, was related to the literacy development of 4-year-old children in a laboratory school affiliated with the University of Toronto. Over the course of the year, children participated in a longitudinal photo journal project. With adult…
Descriptors: Laboratory Schools, Invented Spelling, Gender Differences, Emergent Literacy