Treiman, Rebecca, Jeremy Cohen, Kevin Mulqueeny, Brett Kessler & Suzanne Schechtman. 2006, July. Young children’s knowledge about printed names. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Vancouver, Canada.
We examined prereaders’ knowledge about the visual characteristics of print by studying their knowledge of one particularly important type of print, personal names. Young preschoolers (mean age 3;8) preferred names that were written horizontally as opposed to vertically or diagonally and with letters of the Latin alphabet as opposed to letters from visually dissimilar writing systems. Children of this age were also knowledgeable about the specific letters in their own name, particularly the first letter. However, young preschoolers did not know about the conventional capitalization pattern for names, preferring names written in all uppercase letters.
Treiman, R., Cohen, J., Mulqueeny, K., Kessler, B., & Schechtman, S. (2006, July). Young children’s knowledge about printed names. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Vancouver, Canada.
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