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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Read Writ. 2011 May;24(5):567–589. doi: 10.1007/s11145-009-9220-8

Table 5.

Percentage of Participants’ Meeting Criterion on Specific Writing Features for the Write Name Task

Age-Group

Writing Feature Scored 3-year-olds 4-year-olds 5-year-olds
Linearity 66.7% 89.1% 96.5%
Segmentation 70.4% 88.6% 94.3%
Simple Characters 66.7% 86.6% 94.3%
Left-to-Right Orientation 53.3% 90.5% 92.9%
First Letter of Name 56.7% 78.6% 90.1%
Complex Characters 50.0% 86.0% 92%
Random Letters 23.3% 70.5% 87.9%
Many Letters 20.0% 66.0% 83.7%
Write First Name 13.3% 45.8% 72.3%