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Robinson, Susan Smith – 1990
A longitudinal study determined if children's invented spelling served as a viable predictor of reading achievement and compared the predictive value of assessing children's invented spelling relative to other notable predictors, such as letter names, letter sounds, a concept of a word, and phonemic awareness. Subjects, 52 kindergarten children…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Invented Spelling, Kindergarten, Longitudinal Studies
Robinson, Susan Smith – 1991
A study investigated whether predictions of reading achievement could be improved by studying the relative contributions of alphabetic knowledge and invented spelling over time. Subjects, 38 upper middle-class children enrolled at an elementary school in the Midwest, were administered an alphabetic knowledge task (measuring letter names and letter…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Invented Spelling, Letters (Alphabet), Longitudinal Studies