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EJ385549 FL519124
Title: The Development of Children's Sense of the Written Story Register: An Analysis of the Texture of Kindergarteners' "Pretend Reading" Texts.
Author(s): Pappas, Christian C.; Brown, Elga
Source: Linguistics and Education, v1 n1 p45-79 Spr 1988
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJJUL1989
Kindergarteners' three pretend readings of two picture storybooks are analyzed in terms of approximate, ambiguous, and five types of extrapolated tokens. Seven tables show the results of analyses. It is suggested that children use various constructive strategies to acquire a familiarity with the registers of typical written story language. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading; *Child Language; Kindergarten Children; *Prereading Experience; Primary Education; *Reading Readiness; Reading Research; Role Playing
Identifiers: *Pretend Reading; *Registers (Linguistics)
