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Download full textMcCormick, Christine; Mason, Jana – 1981
Sixty-six children in three classrooms were tested at the end of their kindergarten year and again at the beginning of their first grade year to determine the effects of summer vacations on the gain or loss of beginning reading skills. The Letter and Word Reading Test, which was based on a developmental model of prereading and beginning reading,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Beginning Reading, Child Development, Grade 1
Peer reviewedDodd, Barbara; Carr, Alex – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2003
This study with 83 normally developing children (ages 4-6) compared three essential skills in early literacy, letter-sound recognition, letter-sound recall, and letter reproduction. Children performed better in letter-sound recognition than in letter-sound recall and letter reproduction. There were no performance differences due to sex or age.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Communication Disorders
