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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