Rethinking How to Promote Reading Comprehension.

HW Catts - American Educator, 2022 - ERIC
Reading comprehension is not a skill someone learns and can then apply in different
reading contexts. It is one of the most complex activities that readers engage in on a regular …

Ready, set, write: Early learning standards for writing in the Common Core era

LS Tortorelli, HK Gerde, R Rohloff… - Reading Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Early writing skills are among the strongest predictors of later reading and writing
achievement; however, these crucial skills are often neglected in early childhood …

The early writing skills of children identified as at-risk for literacy difficulties

LJG Thomas, HK Gerde, SB Piasta, JAR Logan… - Early Childhood …, 2020 - Elsevier
Examining children's early writing skills, particularly for those who have been identified as at-
risk for later literacy difficulties, is critical to understanding potential differences in the early …

Understanding Preschool Educators' Writing Knowledge: Insights from the Early Writing Knowledge Assessment

MF Quinn, GE Bingham, R Rohloff… - Reading Research …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Teachers' knowledge impacts their practices in classrooms. While considerable research
has sought to understand teachers' broad emergent literacy knowledge, less is known about …

Teaching early writing: Supporting early writers from preschool to elementary school

R Rohloff, L Tortorelli, HK Gerde… - Early Childhood Education …, 2023 - Springer
Writing skills grow along a predictable developmental trajectory, yet what is considered
“writing” can look very different in preschool and early elementary classrooms. The way in …

Qualitative and mixed methods in assessing writing interventions

A Hall, B Beschorner, K White, Q Gao - … , Designing, Implementing and …, 2023 - brill.com
Qualitativeandmixedmethodresearchdesign… aspects and types of writing interventions
because they include participants' perspectives in ways that emphasize the cultural …

Preschool children's interest in early writing activities and perceptions of writing experience

C Zhang, MF Quinn - The Elementary School Journal, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Early literacy research links children's interest in writing to early literacy development. It is
unclear, however, what kind of learning activities related to writing are interesting to young …

Early childhood teachers' writing beliefs and practices

GE Bingham, HK Gerde - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This study examined the early writing beliefs, ideas, and practices of 54 early childhood
teachers. Teachers completed a survey designed to examine their early writing beliefs and …

Association between young Chinese children's early writing skills and the Chinese preschool classroom writing environment

C Zhang, X Zhang, GE Bingham… - Early Education and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study describes the early writing environments of 16 preschool classrooms in China
and 155 Chinese preschoolers' early writing skills as assessed through name writing, word …

Sharing their ideas with the world: Creating meaningful writing experiences for young children.

HK Gerde, TS Wright, GE Bingham - American Educator, 2022 - ERIC
Writing gives children a way to share their voices and ideas with the world. Even in early
childhood, the purpose of writing is to communicate. All young children have messages to …