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Hipple, Marjorie L. – Language Arts, 1985
Discusses efforts at teaching children in kindergarten how to write, indicating that emergent readers can indeed write with scribbles, random letters, numerals, and sometimes words. Discusses their dictation, journal content, writing stages, and developmental trends. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten
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Hubbard, Ruth – Language Arts, 1985
Explores the patterns in children's talk about their writing, by means of transcribed conversations during daily writing/sharing sessions in a first grade classroom. Discusses the importance of this kind of talk. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grade 1, Language Acquisition, Language Arts
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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
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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
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Newkirk, Thomas – Language Arts, 1984
Disproves two assumptions about the development of written language by examining the spontaneous writing of a young child. Expounded primarily by James Britton and associates, the assumptions are (1) children's early writing is relatively undifferentiated in function, and (2) the primary starting point for young writers is writing stories. (HTH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition
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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
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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
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Piazza, Carolyn L.; Tomlinson, Carl M. – Language Arts, 1985
Illustrates how school writing environments that encourage talk between peers can help children learn about writing and the writing process. Describes recurring patterns of language behavior at a kindergarten writing table and shows how children's natural conversations are often reminiscent of adult-child interaction in the home. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Early Childhood Education
Rowe, Deborah Wells – 1987
A study examined how children's understanding and use of written language and graphic/constructive art are embedded in the social world of their classrooms and how they explore the potential of communication systems (specifically, what socio-psychological strategies they use). Subjects were 21 3- and 4-year-old children of faculty and staff at a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Child Development, Child Language, Childrens Art
Bouchard, Kathy A. – 1983
A study investigated the writing processes of four fourth grade students--two girls and two boys--as they participated in an 18-session writing workshop. The sessions were held three times a week for 6 weeks, each lasting 45-minutes. Data were collected through (1) observations of the children as they interacted and composed, revised, edited,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language, Childhood Attitudes
Farr, Marcia – 1984
Noting the close relationship among reading, writing, and oral language documented by research, this paper considers studies of early writing development in the context of emergent literacy rather than in the context of work on writing processes and their development. Following a brief review of early studies of emergent literacy that includes…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Children, Emergent Literacy
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
Beach, Richard, Ed.; Bridwell, Lillian S., Ed. – 1984
This book contains 20 articles, from a wide variety of perspectives, designed to bridge the interests of researchers and teachers on the topic of current composition research. The following articles are included: "Studying the Writing Abilities of a University Freshman Class: Strategies from a Case Study" (Charles R. Cooper, with Roger…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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