Perceptual and Motor Skills · 1972 · 11 citations · 1 references
EducationEducational PsychologyLiteracy EducationChild DevelopmentEarly LiteracyReading DevelopmentEarly Literacy SkillsEmergent Reading SkillsLetter RecognitionLetter WritingReading DifficultiesWriting SkillsAlphabet Learning DifficultiesEarly Writing SkillsFine Motor AdaptationFine Motor InstructionLetter Learning TrajectoriesLetter Recognition DevelopmentLowercase Letter RecognitionLowercase Letters
Tests of kindergarten to Grade 3 students' ability to copy upper- and lower-case primary print letters showed that lower-case letters are more difficult to print. Within upper- and lower-case formats, the letters vary considerably in difficulty as a function of their composition and/or the degree of fine motor control required. Factor analyses, based upon separate intercorrelations for upper- and lower-case letters, produced 7 factors for each type of letter. Although some of the factors tended to contain letters with similar characteristics, no obvious rationale explaining the factor pattern could be developed.
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