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Smith, Susan Lambrecht – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
Phonological and lexical characteristics of 30-month-old children's spontaneous language samples were examined as indicators of later reading outcome. Participants were 27 children, 10 children with reading disability and 17 children without reading disability. Of the non-disabled readers, 7 were at high familial risk for reading disability, and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Grade 2, Learning Disabilities, Language Processing
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Fernandes, Sandra; Ventura, Paulo; Querido, Luis; Morais, Jose – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
We investigated the initial development of reading and spelling in European Portuguese. First-graders, tested in February and June, had to read and spell words and pseudowords. In February there were regularity and graphemic complexity effects, indicating that these children relied on grapheme-phoneme conversion. The lexicality effect found in…
Descriptors: Spelling, Grade 1, Foreign Countries, Written Language
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Oakhill, Jane; Hartt, Joanne; Samols, Deborah – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
This paper reports two studies that investigate differences in comprehension monitoring skills between good and poor comprehenders. Two groups of 9- to 10-year-olds, who were matched for reading vocabulary and word recognition skills but who differed in comprehension skill, were selected. In the first study, in which the children were required to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Children, Vocabulary Skills