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Boldt, Gail; Gilman, Sharlene; Kang, Suyoung; Olan, Elsie; Olcese, Nicole – Language Arts, 2011
This article is an historical study of the understanding of children's writing through "Language Arts". The author and her research team did a content analysis of articles about writing that appeared in "Language Arts" beginning in 1924 through January, 2010. Analysis shows that a major area of tension throughout the history of…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Language Arts, Periodicals, Content Analysis
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Language Arts, 1982
Provides teachers with an understanding of how sighted children develop concepts about print and how blind children develop concepts about braille. Prereading activities designed to extend young children's concepts about print are adapted for blind children. (HTH)
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Childhood Attitudes, Concept Formation
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Buckley, Marilyn Hanf – Language Arts, 1992
Provides a retrospective of the research of Walter Loban. Discusses the primacy of oral language, language development, and the interrelationships between oral and written language in his research. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Ware, Paige D. – Language Arts, 2006
This paper presents two nine-year-old children who used different oral, written, visual, and digital modes as resources to create meaning and to position themselves socially through multimodal stories. Their diverging experiences with technology as a resource for storytelling draw attention to the importance of studying "the ways that old and new…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Story Telling, Oral Language, Written Language
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Taylor, Nancy E.; Vawter, Jacquelyn M. – Language Arts, 1978
Encounters with written language through reading can be exciting if they serve a function within the child's own framework of interest. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes
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Klein, Perry D.; Olson, David R. – Language Arts, 2001
Examines four different levels of development constituting writing as a technology for thinking. Discusses evolution (what speech affords thinkers), history (how text changed the collective construction of knowledge), ontogeny (how literacy affects the development of mind), and microgenesis (how writing facilitates thinking from moment to moment).…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes
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Haley-James, Shirley M. – Language Arts, 1982
Observes that children are ready to write when they understand what writing does, when they are interested in writing, when they want to communicate through writing, and when they understand that written symbols represent meaning. (RL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Primary Education, Student Attitudes, Student Development
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Martinez, Miriam; Nash, Marcia F. – Language Arts, 1991
Reviews 33 children's books which stimulate beginning readers. Divides the books into four categories: books that bridge between oral and written language, predictable books, easy-to-read books, and books of special interest to young children. (MG)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition
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Dyson, Anne Haas – Language Arts, 1982
Reviews literature defining the characteristics of the complex puzzle children encounter moving from oral language to print. Illustrates that, by reading their own writing, children discover the precise connection between reading, writing, and language. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Experience Approach, Learning Processes
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Sawyer, Diane J. – Language Arts, 1975
To determine student readiness in any academic subject, teachers must determine individual levels of cognitive competencies children possess.
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Individualized Instruction, Language Patterns
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Goodman, Yetta M. – Language Arts, 1982
Presents examples of young children using written language. Shows teachers and parents what they can learn from children's developing sense of written language. Suggests activities by which parents and teachers can spur child language development. (RL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Language Experience Approach
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Weaver, Constance – Language Arts, 1982
Finds that the proportion of sentence fragments remained fairly consistent across grade levels, with older students making more errors with more complex syntactic structures as they began to elaborate on ideas and use more subordinate elements. (RL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition, Punctuation
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Laycock, Elizabeth – Language Arts, 1990
Argues the importance of dictated stories, with the teacher or other adult as scribe, in children's development as writers. Examines one child's literary influences and her literacy development. (MG)
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Case Studies, Classroom Research, Dictation
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Kraus, Jo Anne – Language Arts, 2006
Playing the Play describes the experiences of a storyteller and teacher of literature who created a literature-based literacy program at Concourse House, a homeless shelter in Bronx, New York, for women and their young children. This program is based on the belief that pleasure is the primary reason children want to learn to read, and that where…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Young Children, Homeless People, Written Language
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Meier, Terry Ryan; Cazden, Courtney B. – Language Arts, 1982
Examples of the differences between the oral language of Blacks and the standardized written language forced on them in English classrooms illustrate the need for teachers to appreciate language differences and to create a workable context for effective language instruction. (RL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Black Dialects, Classroom Techniques, Educational Needs
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