Focus on Exceptional Children · 1992 · 51 citations · 52 references
EducationEarly Childhood EducationHuman DevelopmentEarly LiteracyLanguage DevelopmentWriting InstructionEarly SpellingLetter RecognitionLetter WritingSpelling DevelopmentWriting DevelopmentWriting SkillsAlphabet InstructionCursive Script DevelopmentEarly Writing SkillsLetter Learning TrajectoriesLowercase Letter RecognitionLowercase LettersLowercase UsageWriting Transcription Skills
If this pattern continued with lowercase manuscript letters and eventually with cursive script, her idiosyncratic style would likely hobble her ability to transcribe her own thoughts quickly or record the thoughts of others.As we shall see shortly, handwriting and other text production skills play an important role in children's development as writers.My wife and I addressed our concern about our daughter's handwriting at home this summer.Using the Zaner-Blaser alphabet (Hackney & Lucas, 1993) as a model, Leah learned how to form upper-and lowercase manuscript letters.As she practiced each letter, we gave her feedback and reinforcement for her
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Lower-level developmental skills in beginning writing
Virginia W. Berninger, Cheryl M. Yates, Ana Cartwright et al. · Reading and Writing · 1992 · 425 citations