A qualitative-quantitative study of preschool writing: Its development and contribution to school literacy

[discusses] the links between children's level of writing and other aspects of literacy / [discusses] 2 assumptions / 1st, preschoolers' level of writing is conceived as one of the major expressions of their emergent literacy / 2nd, writing in preschool is assumed to promote competencies serving as starting points for coping with learning formally to read and write / thus, writing level should predict future progress in reading and writing in school / the aim of our chapter is to examine these assumptions presents features of Hebrew orthography as a background for understanding children's writing / presents a new scale of children's writing in Hebrew, based on the productions of 349 kindergarten children recruited from a wide SES range / attempted to create a more precise scale, and to increase the probability of finding statistical links with other variables / presents the relations between kindergartners' level of writing, on the one hand, and between their general ability and literacy as measured by M. M. Clay's Concepts about Print, on the other / examines whether kindergartners' writing predicts their future progress (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)