Writing instruction in early education should be about more than letter formation and penmanship, argue Michigan State University researchers who found preschool teachers don't often encourage ...

Writing instruction in early education should be about more than letter formation and penmanship, argue researchers who found preschool teachers don't often encourage writing for communication ...

Researchers and educators use the term emergent literacy to refer to a broad set of skills and attitudes that serve as foundational skills for acquiring success in later reading and writing; however, ...

Teresa A. Byington, YaeBin Kim, Promoting Preschoolers’ Emergent Writing, YC Young Children, Vol. 72, No. 5 (November 2017), pp. 74-82 ...

To establish how they supported in-class writing instruction, 32 preschool teachers from several programs like Head Start and nonprofit childcare centers were interviewed by Gerde and Tanya Wright ...

For preschoolers, pre-writing activities are a fun way to practice forming pre-writing shapes, following strokes, and learning different types of lines such as horizontal, vertical, and diagonal ...

Kids learn to write at Saigon Kindergarten in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Many say their children now spend half a day in kindergarten, the rest being devoted to late afternoon ...

And, since every child needs to learn the alphabet as the first step to reading, writing, and vocabulary, we’re giving you these free preschool alphabet worksheets PDF printables!