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Fernando Núñez-Regueiro; Natacha Boissicat; Fanny Gimbert; Céline Pobel-Burtin; Marie-Caroline Croset; Marie-Line Bosse; Cécile Nurra – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Research suggests that providing children with activities that involve using their bodies to form the shapes of letters can help them acquire pre-reading skills. Little is known, however, as to the extent to which such embodied learning interventions are superior to more traditional pencil-and-paper activities, which of specific arm or body…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Physical Activities, Movement Education
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Gehsmann, Kristin M.; Mesmer, Heidi Anne – Reading Teacher, 2023
This article addresses the characteristics of learners in the emergent stage of literacy development and describes two instructional practices that facilitate the development of the alphabetic principle and concept of word in text.
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Phonological Awareness
Puranik, Cynthia S.; Boss, Emily; Wanless, Shannon – Grantee Submission, 2019
Research has established that self-regulation plays an important role in early academic skills such as math and reading, but has focused less on relations with other early skill domains such as writing. The purpose of the present study was to extend that line of research by assessing the relation between self-regulation and early writing.…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Self Control, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
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Ritchey, Kristen D. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
This study examined the development of beginning writing skills in kindergarten and the relationship between early writing skills and early reading skills. Sixty children were assessed on beginning writing skills (including letter writing, individual sound spelling, and real and nonsense word spelling) and beginning reading skills (including…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Kindergarten, Writing Skills, Reading Skills