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Barnhart, June E.; Sulzby, Elizabeth – 1986
A study examined the developmental nature of early literacy in relation to variations in task demands, general cognitive development, and socioeconomic background. Subjects (N=32) were placed in two groups of 16 suburban Chicago kindergarten students that were designated either low income group (LIG) or high income group (HIG). The subjects,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten Children
Davies, Anne – 1987
The relationships between the understandings children develop while learning the written form of their own names and those developed while learning other words were examined in a study. Twelve children, aged three, four, and five, were selected. The study involved three tasks which examined the subjects' expertise with letters, numbers, and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Handwriting, Literacy
Klein, Marvin L. – 1982
Writing development in preschool children has only recently begun to receive attention; however, Russian researchers dealt with the subject in the 1920s and 30s. Arguing that writing was a fundamental assist to cognitive growth as well as a tool for communication, Lev Vygotsky believed that the preschool child was ready to be taught writing.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education
Coe, David E. – 1987
A study investigated the writing behavior of young children in a home setting by collecting and analyzing writing samples of three children--Avaleigh, Adam, and Heather (aged four, five, and six years)--and interviewing them about the features, content, reasons, form, and other details of writing done at home. Parents kept a journal detailing…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Cognitive Development, Emergent Literacy, Family Environment
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
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 33 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) children's sense of audience; (2) rhetorical foundations of technical communication; (3) sources of negative attitudes toward writing; (4) the development of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Cohesion (Written Composition), College Freshmen
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) a study of the meanings of experience of ten published feminist women writers; (2) the composing activities of computer literate writers; (3) the informational…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Cohesion (Written Composition), Computer Assisted Instruction
Hall, Nigel – 1987
Focusing on the relationship between learning oral language and learning about written language, this book discusses the emergent literacy (EL) of children growing up in a Western, print-oriented society, as well as findings of research conducted during the past 15 years on how children make sense of the way in which literacy works in their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Furniss, Elaine R. – 1983
To determine how children develop schema for text that include increasing sensitivity to text types, text categories, orthographic conventions in words, conventional story beginnings and endings, and text cohesive ties, a study examined the writing of four kindergarten children. The kindergarten had adopted a process-conference approach to writing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques