Author Question: Young children sometimes pretend to write grocery lists, restaurant menus, and doctors' ... (Read 87 times)

TFauchery · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Young children sometimes pretend to write grocery lists, restaurant menus, and doctors' prescriptions in their sociodramatic play. Parents and preschool teachers are apt to see three of the following characteristics in such pseudowriting. Which one are they least likely to see?

a. Small spaces between individual letters
b. Periods or commas at the ends of sentences
c. A few alphabet letters mixed in with other letterlike shapes
d. Left-to-right orientation of letters on the page

Question 2

Which one of the following statements most accurately describes the nature of knowledge transforming in a child's writing?

a. It is an intentional effort to evoke visual imagery in the reader.
b. It reflects a child's ability to engage in abstract thinking and scientific reasoning.
c. It reveals a child's attempt to help the reader truly understand the ideas that the child is trying to communicate.
d. It reveals a youngster's ability to form opinions based on factual information, rather than just to recall undisputed facts.