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Peer reviewedBurgess, Stephen R.; Lonigan, Christopher J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Examined the relationship between phonological sensitivity and letter knowledge in 4- and 5-year-olds in a one-year longitudinal study. Found that phonological sensitivity predicted letter knowledge growth, and letter knowledge predicted phonological sensitivity growth, when controlling for age and oral language abilities. Also found that the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Knowledge Level, Letters (Alphabet), Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedMuter, Valerie; Hulme, Charles; Snowling, Margaret; Taylor, Sara – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Examined phonological skills of children during their first two years of learning to read. Found that segmentation was strongly correlated with reading and spelling attainment at the end of the first year of school; letter-name knowledge predicted reading and spelling skill and interacted with segmentation skills. Rhyming predicted spelling skills…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Knowledge Level, Letters (Alphabet), Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedTreiman, Rebecca; Broderick, Victor – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Two studies compared children's knowledge about the letters in their name with knowledge of other letters. Findings indicated that Australian first graders and U.S. kindergartners and preschoolers had superior knowledge of letter-name, but not letter-sound, for first letter of their first name. Also, U.S. preschoolers were better at printing the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
