Writing development across childhood: Advances across international, conceptual, and digital contexts
Writing development across childhood: Advances across international, conceptual, and digital contexts
This dynamic symposium examines writing across childhood by attending to diverse instructional (i.e., home, school) and international contexts (i.e., China, Israel, & United States). Studies offer new ideas and the potential to ignite insightful discussion regarding developmental theoretical writing frameworks, writing processes across orthographies, family support, and electronically-mediated assessment. The works utilize a range of methodologies to answer questions of writing development for diverse students including children living in poverty and speaking varied languages. The symposium begins with an empirical examination of early writing theories with a diverse group of young children, followed by a cross-cultural examination of writing development in US and Chinese children. The next presentation delves into the complexity of home environmental writing supports by examining how parents and siblings support children’s writing development. The finale expands current assessment approaches by examining the utility of a computer-based writing assessment for elementary children, which provides valuable formative guidance for instruction.