Treiman, Rebecca & Brett Kessler. 2004, June. The case of case: Children’s knowledge and use of upper- and lower-case letters. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Research on children’s spelling has focused on its phonological bases. In two studies, we examined a type of nonphonological knowledge that young children may possess—knowledge about the distinction between upper- and lower-case letters. Kindergartners were more likely to capitalize word-initial letters than later letters in their spellings. When children inserted an upper-case letter in a non-initial position, it tended to be a letter whose upper-case form was especially familiar to the child, the child's initial. Study 2, which examined kindergartners' knowledge of the names of upper- and lower-case letters, found further evidence that children's names influence their knowledge about letters and that some of this knowledge is case-specific.
Treiman, R. & Kessler, B. 2004, June. The case of case: Children’s knowledge and use of upper- and lower-case letters. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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