From scribbles to scrabble: Preschool children's developing knowledge of written language

Reading and Writing

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 567-589

  Puranik, Cynthia S ^a   Lonigan, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergent literacy; Emergent writing; Language development; Preschool; Writing; Written language

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954629452     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-009-9220-8     Document Type: Article

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