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Skibbe, Lori E.; Aram, Dorit – Journal of Special Education, 2018
Twenty kindergartners (eight boys) with cerebral palsy (CP) and their mothers engaged in a writing activity that required dyads to compose a grocery list containing four items together. Maternal writing supports were observed, including graphophonemic mediation (i.e., support for letter--sound correspondence) and printing mediation (i.e., guidance…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Cerebral Palsy, Mothers, Emergent Literacy
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Skibbe, Lori E.; Bindman, Samantha W.; Hindman, Annemarie H.; Aram, Dorit; Morrison, Frederick J. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2013
Parental writing support was examined over time and in relation to children's language and literacy skills. Seventy-seven parents and their preschoolers were videotaped writing an invitation together twice during one year. Parental writing support was coded at the level of the letter to document parents' graphophonemic support…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Preschool Children, Video Technology, Writing Skills
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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
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Aram, Dorit – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2002
This study compared the writing mediation style of low SES mothers on home-like and school-like writing activities with their kindergartners. Analysis of videotaped interactions indicated that although mothers had a general cross-activity strategy of mediating writing, different writing contexts resulted in different maternal behaviors. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Hebrew, Kindergarten Children, Low Income Groups
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Aram, Dorit; Levin, Iris – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2002
Examined relationship of maternal mediation in joint writing and of storybook reading with emergent literacy among low-SES kindergartners. Found that after partialling out home environment measures and storybook reading, maternal writing mediation explained added variance for children's word writing/recognition and phonological awareness.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten Children, Low Income Groups, Mothers
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Aram, Dorit; Levin, Iris – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
The current study follows up on Aram and Levin's (2001, "Cognitive Development," 16, 831?852) analysis of the role of maternal writing mediation among low SES Israeli kindergartners. That study's main finding indicated that the quality of maternal writing mediation correlated concurrently with kindergartners' literacy skills after…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Reading Comprehension, Emergent Literacy, Role