The Investigation Of Pre-School Children’s Print Awareness And Skills For Writing Preparation

Volume: 7 Number: 3 September 1, 2014
  • Özlem Şimşek Çetin
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The Investigation Of Pre-School Children’s Print Awareness And Skills For Writing Preparation

Abstract

The goal of the study is to investigate the pre-school children’s print awareness and skills for writing preparation. Descriptive research method was used in the study. The children attending kindergarten classes in the primary schools of five different central districts of Ankara province in 2009-2010 academic year formed the study group of the research. The sampling of the research consists of 376 children who were chosen via stratified sampling method. Control List for the Evaluation of Pre-School Children’s Preparation Skills for Writing and Control List for the Evaluation Pre-School Children’s Print Awareness were used as data collection tools. At the end of the research, it was found that the total grade average of the children in their skills for writing preparation was 7.74 and that number corresponded to 70.4 %. Children’s print awareness grade average was 6.38 and that number corresponded to 37.5 %. The obtained correlation which was calculated to identify the relation between children’s print awareness and their skills for writing preparation was 0.262. It was revealed that there has been a low-level but positive relation between print awareness and skills for writing preparation.

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Özlem Şimşek Çetin This is me

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September 1, 2014

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September 1, 2014

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Year 2014 Volume: 7 Number: 3

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Şimşek Çetin, Ö. (2014). The Investigation Of Pre-School Children’s Print Awareness And Skills For Writing Preparation. Journal of Theoretical Educational Sciences, 7(3), 342-360. https://izlik.org/JA98DC83GZ