Abstract
“Teacher, I can read all the names on the locker,” said Nikki, and to her teacher's amazement, she did. The teacher had expected this class of three year olds to learn to recognize their own names, but she hadn't forseen that some would learn all the other children's names as well.
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Sally Hruska, a former early education teacher, is a doctoral student at Michigan State University in Lansing. The teachers from Marquette-Alger Head Start provided many of the teaching ideas in this article.
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Hruska, S. Namewriting: A step toward writing and reading. Early Childhood Educ J 12, 36–38 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01623097
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