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Peer reviewedHeald-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
Peer reviewedPaulis, Chris – English Journal, 1985
Appraises the results of an exercise in which students in a composition class attempted to write detective stories. Concludes that many of their syntactic errors result from their intentions exceeding their level of writing skill. (RBW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Error Patterns, Humor, Language Usage
Download full textGambrell, Linda B. – 1982
To test the hypothesis that induced mental imagery would facilitate the contemplation and reflection that have been suggested as being important to the writing process, a study investigated the effects of instructions to induce mental imagery upon the written language of young children. Subjects, 28 third grade children, were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Grade 3, Language Usage
Fitzgerald, Jill; Teasley, Alan B. – 1983
A study investigated whether direct instruction in story constituents and their interrelationships could enhance children's organization in story writing. It was hypothesized that the special instruction could provide children with an internalized prototype story structure that could serve as a heuristic or planning device for organizing…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Creativity, Grade 4
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
Stallard, Loretta M.; Stallard, Charles – 1980
An examination of writing readiness (the state of being ready to write with a reasonable chance of success) across grade levels has revealed some developmental stages involved in writing and has indicated the role of intention in writing. The analysis has begun at grade two, since younger children's writing is greatly affected by their…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Difficulty Level
Lundsteen, Sara W. – 1986
Stressing the importance of understanding child development, this paper first describes the writing of several children in a kindergarten class who represent various levels of emerging literacy. Based on the descriptions of classroom activities, the paper argues that with a developmental perspective the teacher can build instruction on what the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Developmental Stages, Early Reading
