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Peer reviewedBowey, Judith A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Investigates relationships between syntactic awareness and reading proficiency. Fourth- and fifth-grade children of varying decoding ability differed in syntactic awareness according to their ability to correct grammatically deviant sentences in an oral language task. Significant correlations were observed between task results and measures of…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Peer reviewedRoth, Froma P.; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1996
Review of the contribution of various oral language abilities to early reading performances found that, although phonemic awareness was the best predictor of early reading skills, metasyntactic ability also often accounted for significant variance. Once children acquire initial decoding skills, narrative discourse and other metalinguistic skills…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Language Skills, Linguistics
