Preschool Interactive Writing Instruction: Inviting Emergent Writers to Share the Pen

Specifically, early composition activities enhance phonological awareness (recognition of the sounds that make up words), alphabet knowledge (letter identification and letter-sound knowledge), and print awareness (functions, forms, and conventions of written language)-all skills that are associated...

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Published in:YC young children 2019-11, Vol.74 (5), p.78-83
Main Author: Hall, Anna H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Beginning Writing
Childrens Writing
Classrooms
Collaborative Writing
Early Reading
Educational Strategies
Feature Article
Grade 1
Handwriting
Kindergarten
Learning
Preschool children
Preschool Teachers
Writing instruction
Young Children
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Summary:Specifically, early composition activities enhance phonological awareness (recognition of the sounds that make up words), alphabet knowledge (letter identification and letter-sound knowledge), and print awareness (functions, forms, and conventions of written language)-all skills that are associated with future reading and writing proficiency (Strachan, Duke, & Teale 2013). All of these critical early stages of writing development build a solid foundation for conventional writing, which typically develops in the early primary years (Strachan, Duke, & Teale 2013). Since the late 1970s, emergent literacy (a term coined by literacy scholar Marie Clay in the 1960s) has been the dominant theoretical perspective on early reading and writing. Because an entire lesson is only eight to 10 minutes long, an alphabet-linking activity should take one or two minutes to complete. [...]teachers can think aloud as they and the children write each letter of the group text.
ISSN:1538-6619
1941-2002