Alphabetic Skills in Preschool: A Preliminary Study of Letter Naming and Letter Writing

Molfese, Victoria J.; Beswick, Jennifer; Molnar, Andrew E.; Jacobi-Vessels, Jill

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“…In the dictation task, the number of letters handwritten was linked with letter knowledge, but not the quality of handwriting. This result is similar to that obtained by Molfese et al (2006) study, who found a link between letter naming and letter writing. Further studies are needed to better understand the link between perceptual and motor skills and the different components of handwriting.…”

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Haptics in teaching handwriting: The role of perceptual and visuo-motor skills

Bara¹,

Gentaz

2011

Human Movement Science

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Two studies were carried out in order to better understand the role of perceptual and visuo-motor skills in handwriting. Two training programs, visual-haptic (VH) and visual (V), were compared which differed in the way children explored the letters. The results revealed that improvements of VH training on letter recognition and handwriting quality were higher than improvements after V training. We suppose that VH training was more efficient because it improved both perceptual and visuo-motor skills. In the second experiment, in order to investigate the part of each component, we assessed the link between visuo-motor skills, perceptual skills and handwriting. The results showed that only the visuo-motor tasks predict handwriting copying performance. These results are discussed in relation to the respective roles of the perceptual and visuo-motor skills on letter shape learning and handwriting movement execution.

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Haptics in teaching handwriting: The role of perceptual and visuo-motor skills

Bara¹,

Gentaz

2011

Human Movement Science

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“…Aun así, gracias a la fuerte relación existente entre lectura y escritura, cabe esperar que muchas de las variables detectadas como fundamentales en el aprendizaje de la lectura, lo sean también para la escritura (Shanahan, 2006). Efectivamente, Coker (2006) y Molfese, Beswick, Molnar & Jacobi-Vessels (2006) analizan en sus estudios la importancia del conocimiento del nombre de las letras y de la capacidad de deletrear palabras en el aprendizaje de la escritura, subrayando que su adquisición y dominio en 3-4 años se relaciona positivamente con una más tardía capacidad de escribir el propio nombre, letras y números bajo dictado. Así mismo, Sulzby, Barnhart & Hieshima (2001) destacan la importancia de unas primeras formas de dibujos, de la capacidad de deletrear palabras inventadas y del conocimiento del nombre de las letras en el desarrollo de las primeras habilidades de escritura en niños de 4-5 años.…”

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Validación en Contexto Español De La Subprueba De Inicio De La Escritura De La Shell

Ceccato¹,

Llario²,

Sanmillán³

2016

Revista INFAD de Psicología

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Because of a lack of research examining early learning skills involved in writing and, above all, the lack of tests evaluating it, the main objective of this work is the validation in the spanish context of SHELL's subscales related to emergent writing skills. Participants were 119 students from the provinces of Castellón and Valencia, who have been evaluated when 4 years old. The administered instrument was a spanish version of the subtests related to early writing of SHELL scale in which the child has to choose between some letters, the one he needs to write some words (his/her name, "sea", "sun", "whistle" and "sun"). Results of the exploratory factor analysis allow to identify two factors which differ in frequency of occurrence and complexity of words and letters that compose them. So, in the "high exposure" factor saturate more frequent and simple words and in the "low exposure" factor we can find less common words and letters whose learning is delayed because of their complexity component. Furthermore, analysis of the reliability of the test has highlighted a general Cronbach Alpha test of .72 (with oscillations between .56 and .97 in the different items). Therefore, we conclude not only that the scale has a good internal consistency, but also that it is possible to consider the spanish adaptation developed, as a reliable and robust assessment of the writing emergent skills.

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“…Observation forms used in other studies to evaluate the name writing skills of preschool children were analyzed (Bloodgood, 1999;Haney et al, 2003;Estabrook, 2013;Haney, 2002;Ho, 2011;Molfese et al 2006;Sulzby et al, 1989, Gerde et al, 2012. Items of the observation form were determined following the literature review.…”

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A study on preschool childrens name writing and writing readiness skills

Çetin¹

2015

Educ. Res. Rev.

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The purpose of this work is to analyze the name writing and writing readiness levels of preschoolers in terms of various variables and to identify the relationship between children's name writing skill and writing readiness levels. To that end, name-writing and writing-readiness skills of 204 preschoolers at the ages of 3, 4 and 5 were examined using observation forms. Results revealed that children's name writing skills were similar in terms of school type and gender yet they differed based on their age. Writing readiness scores showed no significant difference in relation to children's gender but significant differences were observed in school type and age. Writing readiness levels were higher among children who were able to write their full names and lower among those who just scribbled randomly.

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Alphabetic Skills in Preschool: A Preliminary Study of Letter Naming and Letter Writing

Cited by 77 publications

References 17 publications

Haptics in teaching handwriting: The role of perceptual and visuo-motor skills

Haptics in teaching handwriting: The role of perceptual and visuo-motor skills

Validación en Contexto Español De La Subprueba De Inicio De La Escritura De La Shell

A study on preschool childrens name writing and writing readiness skills

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