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Milz, Vera E. – 1982
Focusing on writing as a language process, this booklet describes a framework for writing instruction that has as a major consideration the totality of language. The first section discusses writing as a language process, emphasizing that as children learn to write, they can also learn to listen, speak, and read. The second section focuses on the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedFujiki, Martin; Brinton, Bonnie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1987
Thirteen subjects (aged 5:6 to 6:6) with language disorders were given elicited imitation and spontaneous language tasks, and their performance was compared among and within subjects. The two procedures produced significantly correlated results for some children but not for others. Analysis of specific syntactic forms also produced variable…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Expressive Language, Imitation, Language Acquisition
Download full textSulzby, Elizabeth – 1981
Kindergarten children differ in how close they are to becoming readers and writers. A study investigated the dictated and handwritten materials of 24 kindergarten children. In each of two sessions, three language productions were obtained: a told story, a dictated story, and a handwritten story. Additionally, samples of rereading and editing were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Research, Handwriting, Kindergarten
Sulzby, Elizabeth – 1982
The product of a two-year study investigating the literacy behavior of nine kindergarten students and their classmates, this report first explains the impetus and the theoretical foundations for the investigation and describes its subjects and setting. It then presents the methodology and the data collected from several related studies: (1)…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Research, Kindergarten Children, Language Experience Approach
Sulzby, Elizabeth – 1981
This report gives a history of the 1979-80 segment of a continuing project that is designed to provide a theoretically based description of children's transition from prereading to reading, along with tools that teachers may use to assess children's emerging literacy abilities. The first chapter provides an introduction to the project, while the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Elementary Education, Fantasy
Itzkoff, Seymour W. – 1996
This nontechnical guide for parents and teachers examines learning to read from infants' babbling to the fluent reading of children reading independently for pleasure. Chapter 1, "Baby Speaks," describes language development in infancy. Chapter 2, "Our Alphabet: Language by Ear and by Eye," presents the alphabetic system and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Dyslexia, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy
