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Direct linkCynthia Puranik; Molly Duncan; Ying Guo – Grantee Submission, 2024
In the present study we examined the contributions of transcription and foundational oral language skills to written composition outcomes in a sample of kindergartners. Two hundred and eighty-two kindergarten students from 49 classrooms participated in this study. Children's writing-related skills were examined using various tasks. Latent…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Writing Skills, Beginning Writing
Parker, David C.; Burns, Matthew K.; McMaster, Kristen L.; Shapiro, Edward S. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2012
Early writing interventions can help students develop the writing skills they need to experience positive educational and postsecondary outcomes, but effective intervention requires instructionally relevant assessment data. Shapiro's curriculum-based assessment (CBA) model integrates related yet distinct CBA approaches into a model that informs…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Evaluation, Writing Research, Curriculum Based Assessment
Leier, Cindy – Insights into Open Education, 1991
A ethnographic study examined the ways a young child's mind grasps the idea of the written word. The 5-year-old subject, called "Craig" in this article, had an unending thirst for print, read at the second grade level, and had fluent speech and vocabulary. Craig was followed over the previous 8-month period from the time he first gained…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Case Studies, Emergent Literacy, Ethnography
Scottish Curriculum Development Service, Edinburgh. – 1985
Intended to encourage teachers to examine their assumptions about teaching writing, this document containing a mixture of theory and practice deals with many aspects of writing. The chapters discuss (1) an examination of children's writing and some questions arising from the examination; (2) reasons for failure to write well, including the home…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Handwriting
Download full textDomico, Mary Anne – 1992
A study was designed to identify and codify behavioral trends in the composing process of early writers' narrative attempts in literate environment instructional settings. The study also examined regressive patterns within behavioral responses to determine how development in one area of the writing task influenced the development in other areas.…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Classroom Environment, Developmental Stages, Elementary School Students
Smith, Vernon H. – 1984
To see what effects practice--frequent writing without teacher correction--would have on the writing of students in grades one and two in one small elementary school, writing samples were collected from all pupils at each grade level in October and May. Five factors were examined: general impression, length, vocabulary, spelling, and syntactic…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Grade 1, Grade 2, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedGee, Marion – Reading, 1989
Examines early stages in children's handwriting, emphasizing the importance of teaching correct letter formation. Recommends (1) individual initial assessment and formative assessment throughout the teaching program; (2) teaching based on individual children's errors; and (3) careful observation of individual children in the process of writing.…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
