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Hall, Susan E. M. – Language Arts, 1985
Describes how kindergarten children use invented spelling to rewrite Mother Goose nursery rhymes, indicating the phoneme grapheme system the children perceived from spoken language. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Kindergarten, Nursery Rhymes, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence

Heald-Taylor, B. Gail – Reading Teacher, 1984
Reports on a recent study of first grade writing efforts that confirms the importance of scribble in the writing process when it is an accepted language behavior in the classroom. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grade 1, Language Usage, Primary Education

Cambourne, Brian – English in Australia, 1983
Relates some of the observations made of a kindergarten classroom over a two-year period in which teachers simulated as many conditions as possible with respect to a natural "learning-how-to-write" situation. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Kindergarten

Susi, Geraldine Lee – Reading Teacher, 1986
Sets forth educational inferences drawn from a classroom incident involving a first-grade child and her first story writing experience. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Grade 1

Wiseman, Donna L. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Argues that by encouraging children in their early writing efforts, adults can help them develop into confident and comfortable writers. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Early Reading, Integrated Activities

Jacobs, Suzanne E. – Written Communication, 1985
Presents a model that predicts writing growth in children as a logical outcome of language acquisition. Provides a list of the kinds of language learning underway in the elementary school years and suggests that teachers may use this list to anticipate where and how such learning will influence the writing processes of children. (FL)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
Bertrand, Nancy; Fairchild, Steven H. – 1984
Children begin school with some very basic ideas about written language and reading. The first is that of sign and message. That a graphic representation, a "sign," conveys meaning is an early and easy concept for children that stems from their visually attending to print in their environment. The realization that spoken language can be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Environment, Family Environment, Language Skills

Dyson, Anne Haas – Language Arts, 1981
Explores the transition of several children from spoken language to beginning writing. (HTH)
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Child Language, Kindergarten Children, Language Skills
Walshe, R. D., Ed. – 1983
The articles in this collection are intended to present a detailed picture of the work of Donald Graves and his associates at the Writing Process Laboratory (WPL) of the University of New Hampshire. The introduction provides an overview of the work of Graves and examines his views of beginning writing, writing conferences, revision, audience, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education

Moss, R. Kay – English Quarterly, 1986
Analyzes the written language learning of kindergarten children as a transaction among writers, teachers, and the writing process and concludes that children, when given the opportunity to take risks with written language, create with semantic intent. (DF)
Descriptors: Child Language, Kindergarten Children, Language Arts, Language Processing
Warash, Barbara Gibson – 1984
The West Virginia University Child Development Laboratory has successfully used microcomputers as a complement to their language experience approach to teaching three- and four-year-old children. The computer acts as a motivational tool, and gives children the opportunity to produce perfectly typed pictures or letters. The first encounter a child…
Descriptors: Child Language, Childhood Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Language Acquisition
Baghban, Marcia – 1986
A case study detailed the influence of a nine-year-old female sibling on the writing development of her younger brother, from the time he was 18 months old until he was 28 months old. General and significant interactions, such as the boy's oral language milestones and the books the children shared, were recorded in a journal by their mother.…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Case Studies, Child Language, Child Role
Fiderer, Adele; And Others – 1986
Intended for parents and teachers who are interested in the approximate level at which their primary school-age children should be writing, this document describes the type of writing children at each age can produce and how they go about producing it. An introduction makes this point and offers a set of writing process terms to describe…
Descriptors: Child Language, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Art, Creative Writing
Dobson, L. N. – 1983
A study examined the hypothesis that if young children are immersed in a social and psychological setting appropriate for language learning they can learn to write simply by writing. Placed in a supportive classroom environment, 24 first grade students were expected to communicate in writing in any way they could from their first day at school.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Marlow, Leslie – 1987
Small children are very imaginative, and teachers should provide varied experiences to encourage continued growth of their imaginations. Classroom instructional settings can be full of discovery and learning if teachers provide many prewriting opportunities that allow children to discover opportunities for writing. These experiences should cut…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Environment, Content Area Writing, Creative Teaching
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