What Readers Do: Young Children's Ideas about the Nature of Reading.

Strommen, Linda Teran; Mates, Barbara Fowles

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ERIC Number: EJ556788

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Publication Date: 1997

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What Readers Do: Young Children's Ideas about the Nature of Reading.

Strommen, Linda Teran; Mates, Barbara Fowles

Reading Teacher, v51 n2 p98-107 Oct 1997

Reports results of a three-year longitudinal study exploring the evolution of young children's ideas about reading. Finds that there was only moderate consistency in the ages at which concepts emerged and that the sequence of conceptual development was quite uniform across these children. (SR)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Longitudinal Studies, Prereading Experience, Reading Attitudes, Reading Research, Young Children

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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