Hannah R Thompson, Kristine A Madsen, Maya Zamek, Thomas L McKenzie, David A Dzewaltowski
Implementation of elementary school physical education quantity and quality law through school district audit, feedback, and coaching
The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity
purpose study examine orthographic fastmapping abilities 5 6yearold children across time determine growth ability quickly acquire mental images written words b effect words statistical regularities learning written word images across time c whether statistical regularities words impact childrens eye movements orthographic fastmapping task relation among written word learning future literacy skills twentyeight 5 6yearold children viewed listened 12 short stories eye movements recorded across 2 time points approximately 3 months apart time point objects stories represented 12 novel pseudowords differing phonotactic orthotactic probabilities viewing story children asked spell identify target pseudowords also completed battery literacy measures children able quickly acquire mental orthographic representations novel written pseudowords evidenced ability identify spell target pseudowords viewing stories ability related future literacy performance significantly improved time performance orthographic fastmapping tasks childrens eye movements time 2 influenced words linguistic properties study adds accumulating evidence orthographic fastmapping largely influenced orthotactic probabilities words findings taken together previous investigations provide rich amount evidence indicating children statistical learners developing orthographic knowledge