Journal of Education and Human Development

From the Graphic Gesture to Early writing Learning Skills in Preschool Children
Lidia Scifo, Giovanna Ilaria Trapani, Agata Maltese, Annamaria Pepi

Abstract
The purpose of this study is to understand how the development of written language learning takes place in pre-school children, what are the characteristics of pre-school age and if writing it's a skill that develops in a line way. A cross-sectional research design was used to investigate the development of graphic skills in children aged 3 to 5 years. In particular, for this research 461 (four hundred sixty-one) preschool children (from three to five years old), who have been administered individual tests related to writing and to development all the abilities underlying it. The results obtained were that there is a gradual increase of writing skills of the preschool children (3-5 age). It is possible to define that the development of writing has a linear development. In particular, the learning of writing language follows a trend of linear development in children from preschool through the graphic gesture to forms of conventional writing in school age.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/jehd.v9n2a4