The developmental characteristics of four- and five-year-old pre-schoolers' drawing: An analysis of scribbles, placement patterns, emergent writing, and name writing in archived spontaneous drawing samples

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-162

  Yang, Hui Chin ^a   Noel, Andrea M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

emergent writing; name writing; placement patterns; scribbles

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248698458     PISSN: 14687984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468798406066442     Document Type: Article

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