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Mohamed, Malikka Begum Habib; O'Brien, Beth A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
New research suggests that mechanisms involved in fine motor skills play an important role in reading and writing development. Extending past work that focused on fine motor skills measured in adolescence, the present study followed children longitudinally from ages 5 to 7 to examine early literacy and associated sets of fine motor skills,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Psychomotor Skills, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception
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Liu, Duo; Chen, Xi; Wang, Ying – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
The present study investigated the associations of visual-spatial attention with word reading fluency and spelling in 92 third grade Hong Kong Chinese children. Word reading fluency was measured with a timed reading task whereas spelling was measured with a dictation task. Results showed that visual-spatial attention was a unique predictor of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability
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Fischbach, Anne; Könen, Tanja; Rietz, Chantal S.; Hasselhorn, Marcus – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The goals of this study were to explore the deficits in working memory associated with literacy disorders (i.e. developmental disorders of reading and/or spelling) and the developmental trajectories of these working memory deficits. The performance of 28 children with literacy disorders was compared to a non-disabled control group with the same…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Longitudinal Studies, Executive Function, Literacy
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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
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Alamargot, Denis; Lambert, Eric; Thebault, Claire; Dansac, Christophe – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
The aim of this study was to compare the compositional performances of deaf and hearing students and to investigate the relationships between these performances and working memory capacities. Fifteen prelingually deaf, sign-using students and 15 hearing students composed a descriptive text and performed working memory tasks. The deaf students had…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Deafness, Short Term Memory