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Pears, Katherine C.; Heywood, Cynthia V.; Kim, Hyoun K.; Fisher, Philip A. – School Psychology Review, 2011
Reading skills are core competencies in children's readiness to learn and may be particularly important for children in foster care, who are at risk for academic difficulties and higher rates of special education placement. In this study, prereading skills (phonological awareness, alphabetic knowledge, and oral language ability) and kindergarten…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Oral Language, Phonological Awareness, Path Analysis
Murray, Maria S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Recent evidence suggests that invented spelling is valuable in predicting reading development, revealing which prereading skills children possess and still need to learn, and promoting development of early literacy skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ability of letter-sound knowledge, phoneme awareness, and word reading…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonemes, Regression (Statistics), Urban Schools