The contribution of play experiences in early literacy: Expanding the science of reading

MK Rand, LM Morrow - Reading Research Quarterly, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Children's experiences in preschool and kindergarten influence their future literacy learning.
Although emergent literacy has traditionally been supported by play‐based experiences …

[HTML][HTML] Which executive functions affect text comprehension and writing in paper and digital mode? An investigation in primary school children

C Ruffini, C Tarchi, C Pecini - Computers & Education, 2023 - Elsevier
The scientific literature supports the hypothesis of a disadvantage in students' performances
when learning tasks are conducted in the digital mode in comparison to the paper one …

Development in narrative competences from oral to written stories in five-to seven-year-old children

G Pinto, C Tarchi, L Bigozzi - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2016 - Elsevier
This prospective cohort study analyzes the predictive power of oral narrative competence in
kindergarten on written narrative competence in first grade, and compares it to the …

Oral narrative instruction improves kindergarten writing

MS Kirby, TD Spencer, YJI Chen - Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Writing is a critical literacy skill that emerges in kindergarten. The research literature has
only addressed transcription skills of kindergarteners and has failed to address text …

The role of preschoolers' home literacy environment and emergent literacy skills on later reading and writing skills in primary school: A mediational model

L Bigozzi, G Vettori, O Incognito - Frontiers in psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The importance of the quality of home literacy environment and practices (HLE&P) in the
earliest years on children's reading and writing development is recognized in the literature …

The effect of language specific factors on early written composition: The role of spelling, oral language and text generation skills in a shallow orthography

B Arfé, JE Dockrell, B De Bernardi - Reading and Writing, 2016 - Springer
Spelling skills have been identified as one of the major barriers to written text production in
young English writers. By contrast oral language skills and text generation have been found …

Becoming fictional storytellers: African American children's oral narrative development in early elementary school

N Gardner‐Neblett - Child Development, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Oral storytelling skills are a complex oral discourse competency with implications for
children's academic and social well‐being, yet few studies have investigated the …

The impact of oral language and transcription skills on early writing production in kindergarteners: Productivity and quality

C Rodríguez, JE Jiménez, J Balade - Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024 - Springer
This study aimed to investigate the roles of transcription skills and oral language abilities in
predicting writing quality and productivity among Spanish-speaking kindergarten children …

Family engagement and Latine children's early narrative skills

G Melzi, C McWayne, W Ochoa - Early Childhood Education Journal, 2020 - Springer
The present study examined the concurrent relations between culture-specific dimensions of
family engagement for low-income, Pan-Latine families and children's narrative ability, a …

The transfer effect of vocabulary and morphological awareness intervention on narrative ability in kindergarteners

E Nevo, V Vaknin-Nusbaum, M Sarid - Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024 - Springer
Solid knowledge of vocabulary and sensitivity to words' morphological structure not only
facilitates children's ability to learn and comprehend new words in speech, but it can also be …