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Frith, Uta – British Journal of Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Child Development, Letters (Alphabet), Reading Skills, Space Orientation

McCarthy, Lenore – Visible Language, 1977
This study chronicles the process in which a young child teaches herself to write the letters of the alphabet. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Handwriting, Handwriting Skills, Language Acquisition
Gentry, J. Richard – Texas Tech Journal of Education, 1984
Precommunicative, semiphonetic, phonetic, transitional, and correct spelling are the developmental stages in the acquisition of spelling competency. Samples of children's early spelling patterns are presented. A system for classifying early spelling strategy is outlined. (DF)
Descriptors: Child Development, Learning Processes, Letters (Alphabet), Phonetic Transcription
Clay, Marie M. – 1979
The difficulties children face as they are learning to read is the focus of this book, which is a collection of children's work (drawings and handwriting), with statements exploring their implications. The introduction discusses the relationship between early writing and early reading, individual differences, the question of age norms, questions…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing
Rhodes, Lynn K. – 1979
Reading can be defined as a meaningful interaction with a print setting. Interactive models of reading assume that lower level and higher level processing occurs simultaneously, interacting with each other. The familiarity of the book, the context in which a sign occurs, and the illustrations of a book are all examples of print setting cues that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language, Concept Formation
Ferreiro, Emilia; Teberosky, Ana – 1982
The reflections and theses on preschool children's literacy development presented in this book are the result of an experimental project carried out in Buenos Aires from 1974 to 1976. Chapter 1 discusses the educational situation in Latin America, traditional methods of reading instruction, contemporary psycholinguistics, the pertinence of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Experience, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition