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EJ448001 TM516574

Title: Writing in Preliterate Children.
Author(s): Gombert, Jean Emile; Fayol, Michel
Source: Learning and Instruction, v2 n1 p23-41 Mar 1992
Publication Date: 1992
Notes: Companion volume to the "International Journal of Educational Research," v18 n1 1992.
ISSN: 0959-4752
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJNOV1992

Dictated words and pictures by 48 young French children, aged 3 to 6 years, demonstrated that young children have the capacity to produce graphics that exhibit some of the characteristics of writing. Developmental stages in children's recognition that their own efforts were not true writing were identified. (SLD)

Descriptors: *Child Development; Early Childhood Education; Foreign Countries; Graphic Arts; *Handwriting; Knowledge Level; Literacy; Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence; *Writing Skills; *Young Children
Identifiers: France; *Writing Development