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Background Factors and Preschool Test Scores as Predictors of Reading: A Nine-Year Longitudinal Study.

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Badian, Nathlie A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1990

Finds the best preschool predictors of reading were naming tests for boys and general verbal ability for girls; for kindergartners, a quantitative test surpassed test of phonemic awareness and language in predicting reading; effects of birth order were strongest at the preschool level; socioeconomic status had significant effects only for boys,…

Descriptors: Birth Order, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Background, Predictive Measurement

The Interrelationships among Preschool Predictors of Reading Acquisition for German Children.

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Naslund, Jan Carol – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1990

Uses preschool tests of general verbal ability, verbal memory span, phonological awareness, lexical access speed and accuracy, and letter knowledge in preschool as independent measures predicting performance on second-grade reading comprehension, word discrimination, and word decoding speed. Finds differential main effects and interactions but a…

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy