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Dylman, Alexandra S.; Kikutani, Mariko; Sasaki, Miho; Barry, Christopher – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
The picture-word task presents participants with a number of pictured objects together with a written distractor word superimposed upon each picture, and their task is to name the depicted object while ignoring the distractor word. Depending on the specific picture and word combination, various effects, including the identity facilitation effect…
Descriptors: Japanese, Written Language, Pictorial Stimuli, Task Analysis
Adams, Anne-Marie; Simmons, Fiona R. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Boys' relatively poor progress in writing development is of particular concern in education with both cognitive and social factors proposed as possible accounts of this discrepancy. This study examined whether differences in cognitive skills such as handwriting and spelling or phonological processing abilities could explain gender differences in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Writing Skills, Young Children, Vocabulary
Manu, Mari; Torppa, Minna; Eklund, Kenneth; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Niemi, Pekka – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
One of the aims for compulsory education is to diminish or alleviate differences in children's skills existing prior to school entry. However, a growing gender gap in reading development has increasingly been documented. Regrettably, there is scant evidence on whether differences between genders (favouring girls) have their roots in pre-reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Prereading Experience
Lin, Dan; Liu, Yingyi; Sun, Huilin; Wong, Richard Kwok; Yeung, Susanna Siu-sze – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The present longitudinal study investigated the role of spelling as a bridge between various reading-related predictors and English word reading in Chinese children learning English as a Second Language (ESL). One hundred and forty-one 5-year-old kindergarten children from Hong Kong, whose first language (L1) was Cantonese and second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Processes
Schaars, Moniek M.; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The present longitudinal study aimed to investigate the development of word decoding skills during incremental phonics instruction in Dutch as a transparent orthography. A representative sample of 973 Dutch children in the first grade (M[subscript age] = 6;1, SD = 0;5) was exposed to incremental subsets of Dutch grapheme-phoneme correspondences…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Phonics, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction
Mitri, Souraya Mansour; Terry, Nicole Patton – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine African American children's performance on a phonological awareness task that included items reflecting differences between African American English (AAE) and mainstream American English. The relationship between spoken production of AAE forms and performance on phonological awareness, vocabulary, and…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, African American Students, Reading Skills, Black Dialects
Wang, Ying; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Chan, Shing Fong – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Ninety-four Mainland Chinese children in the second and third years of kindergarten (mean age = 65 months, SD = 6.94) were tested on Pinyin letter-name knowledge, invented Pinyin spelling, general copying skills of unfamiliar print (in Korean, Hebrew and Vietnamese, ultimately combined to create a pure copying factor), delayed copying of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Orthographic Symbols, Spelling
Foy, Judith G.; Mann, Virginia A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine how executive function skills in verbal and nonverbal auditory tasks are related to early reading skills in beginning readers. Kindergarteners (N = 41, aged 5 years) completed verbal (phonemes) and nonverbal (environmental sounds) Continuous Performance tasks yielding measures of executive function (misses,…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Skills, Executive Function, Kindergarten
Simmons, Deborah C.; Taylor, Aaron B.; Oslund, Eric L.; Simmons, Leslie E.; Coyne, Michael D.; Little, Mary E.; Rawlinson, D'Ann M.; Hagan-Burke, Shanna; Kwok, Oi-man; Kim, Minjung – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This longitudinal study examined (a) the second-grade reading outcomes of 368 children who participated in either experimental or school-designed supplemental intervention in kindergarten, and (b) the influence and interactions of learner variables and type of intervention on reading achievement. Descriptive findings indicated that percentages of…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, Intervention
Aram, Dorit; Korat, Ofra; Hassunah-Arafat, Safieh – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
This longitudinal study assessed the literacy development of native Arabic-speaking children from kindergarten to the end of first grade, focusing on the role of home literacy activities (mother-child shared book reading and joint writing). The contribution of these activities in kindergarten to children's reading and writing at the end of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Literacy, Semitic Languages, Kindergarten
Davidse, N. J.; De Jong, M. T.; Bus, A. G. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
How can it be explained that early literacy and numeracy share variance? We specifically tested whether the correlation between four early literacy skills (rhyming, letter knowledge, emergent writing, and orthographic knowledge) and simple sums (non-symbolic and story condition) reduced after taking into account preschool attention control,…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Numeracy, Correlation, Rhyme
Evans, Mary Ann; Bell, Michelle; Shaw, Deborah; Moretti, Shelley; Page, Jodi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
In this study 149 kindergarten children were assessed for knowledge of letter names and letter sounds, phonological awareness, and cognitive abilities. Through this it examined child and letter characteristics influencing the acquisition of alphabetic knowledge in a naturalistic context, the relationship between letter-sound knowledge and…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Kindergarten, Young Children, Alphabets