So after children have been playing games at home and at school and in child care, such as finding things around the room that begin with the sound or the letter \u2018s\u2019, they start to become interested in creating something in print themselves because they are seeing print all around them. And most children have a curiosity about, they want to pick up a pencil and make a mark on a page. And with very little prompting from adults, they will begin to do this kind of thing. What I do in my research is I ask them to write certain things because I\u2019m interested in what they think print is, and how they move from a pre-literate understanding of print to a literate understanding of print . <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I might ask them to write \u201dDaddy has three hockey sticks\u201d. That;\u2019s one item from the test that I give them. \u201cDaddy has three hockey sticks.\u201d And I\u2019m interested to know, are they going to represent \u201cdaddy\u201d somehow. Are they going to represent the \u201cthree\u201d somehow. Are they going to represent the hockey stick somehow. And how does that change as children begin to acquire the alphabetic principle. And sure enough, you see that they tend to draw a typical four-year-old representation of that would be some kind of form for \u201cdaddy\u201d, it could be a \u201cd\u2019 or it could be a head, and the \u201cthree\u201d might be represented both by the numeral and again by three objects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And as they acquire the alphabetic principle, they tend not to do this redundant writing anymore and they begin to use a \u201cd\u201d for \u201cdaddy\u201d, maybe two \u201cd\u2019s\u201d. They will start to include the \u201chas\u201d the word \u201chas\u201d which wasn\u2019t important before but now it is. And they might represent the \u201cthree\u201d by the numeral or they might try to write out the whole word. And then \u201chockey sticks\u201d they will try to sound out as opposed to drawing three objects. So I\u2019m very interested in how they make that journey and how interesting and clever their errors are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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