Development in early literacy skills during the pre-kindergarten year in Head Start: Relations between growth in children's writing and understanding of letters

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 467-478

  Diamond, Karen E ^a   Gerde, Hope K ^a   Powell, Douglas R ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Head Start; Initial sounds; Letter knowledge; Literacy; Preschool; Print awareness; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149141403     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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