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Barbara L. Ekelman; Debra A. Dutka; Katherine Fox; Islamiat Adamoh-Faniyan; Astrid Pohl Zuckerman; Barbara A. Lewis – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this study was to identify kindergarteners at risk for language and reading disorders and to determine predictors. A representative sample of 311 kindergarteners in general education classrooms in the U.S. Midwest were assessed with the Well Screening in fall, winter, and spring. Groups were compared using analysis of variance…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Language Impairments, Reading Difficulties
Tortorelli, Laura S.; Bowles, Ryan P.; Skibbe, Lori E. – Reading Teacher, 2017
A firm foundation in alphabet knowledge is critical for children learning to read. Under new literacy standards, letter name knowledge in preschool and kindergarten can function as a gatekeeper to the rest of the curriculum. Teachers need data about their students' alphabet knowledge early and often to plan differentiated instruction that moves…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Kindergarten, Alphabets, Emergent Literacy
Tortorelli, Laura S.; Bowles, Ryan P.; Skibbe, Lori E. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Preschool and kindergarten teachers can assess and monitor their students' letter name knowledge in less than a minute per student using the freely available Quick Letter Name Knowledge assessment. The purpose of this article is to introduce the Quick Letter Name Knowledge assessment to early childhood educational practitioners. [This article was…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Kindergarten, Alphabets, Emergent Literacy
Doolittle, Martha; Hutchins, Shaun – Online Submission, 2018
This report summarizes Fall 2017 Texas Kindergarten Early Assessment (TX-KEA) results for Austin Independent School District (AISD) kindergarten students, examining those with or without prior AISD prekindergarten experience. Test domains summarized in the report include vocabulary, listening comprehension, blending, letter names, letter sounds,…
Descriptors: School Districts, Kindergarten, School Readiness, Screening Tests
Chua, Shi Min; Rickard Liow, Susan J.; Yeong, Stephanie H. M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
For bilingual children, the results of language and literacy screening tools are often hard to interpret. This leads to late referral for specialized assessment or inappropriate interventions. To facilitate the early identification of reading difficulties in English, we developed a method of screening that is theory-driven yet suitable for…
Descriptors: Spelling, Bilingual Students, Kindergarten, At Risk Students
Huang, Francis L.; Konold, Timothy R. – Language Testing, 2014
Psychometric properties of the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening for Kindergarten (PALS-K) instrument were investigated in a sample of 2844 first-time public school kindergarteners. PALS-K is a widely used English literacy screening assessment. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a theoretically defensible measurement structure that was…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten, Literacy, Screening Tests
Gabriel, Lydia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to discover if differences existed in the early literacy skills of non-resident kindergarten students participating in the learning community open enrollment program and resident kindergarten students that do and do not qualify for the free or reduced lunch program at the beginning and end of their kindergarten year.…
Descriptors: School Choice, Emergent Literacy, Academic Achievement, Kindergarten
Catts, Hugh W.; Nielsen, Diane Corcoran; Bridges, Mindy Sittner; Liu, Yi Syuan; Bontempo, Daniel E. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
Early and accurate identification of children at risk for reading disabilities (RD) is critical for the prevention of RD within a response to intervention framework. In this study, we investigated the use of universal screening and progress monitoring for the early identification of RD in kindergarten children. A total of 366 children were…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Response to Intervention, Identification
Ford, Karen L.; Invernizzi, Marcia A.; Huang, Francis – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2014
This study explored the viability of using kindergarten measures of phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, and orthographic knowledge, administered in English, to predict first grade reading achievement of Spanish-speaking English language learners. The primary research question was: Do kindergarten measures of early literacy skills in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Regression (Statistics)
Huang, Francis L.; Ford, Karen L.; Invernizzi, Marcia; Fan, Xitao – Grantee Submission, 2013
We investigated the latent factor structure of the "Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening for Kindergarteners" in Spanish ("PALS español K"). Participants included 590 Spanish-speaking, public-school kindergarteners from five states. Three theoretically-guided factor structures were measured and tested with one half of our…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten, Screening Tests, Spanish Speaking
MacDonald, Heidi H.; Sullivan, Amanda L.; Watkins, Marley W. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2013
The present study used multiple regression to determine the predictive value of Kindergarten phonemic awareness, rapid serial naming, letter knowledge, and cognitive ability for predicting first-grade word reading and fluency. Participants were 131 first-grade students from a mid-Atlantic school system. A combination of predictor variables was…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Reading Achievement, Prereading Experience, Cognitive Ability
Center for Innovation in Assessment (NJ1), 2007
The Pre-Kindergarten Inventory of Demonstrated Skills (Pre-KIDS) is designed to be used before the school year begins so that teachers and staff can obtain information about incoming kindergarten students. This information is intended to give teachers insight about what skills a student may or may not have before entering their classrooms. This…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Kindergarten, Young Children, Skills

Hohn, William E.; Ehri, Linnea C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
The present study was designed to determine whether alphabet letters facilitate the acquisition of phoneme segmentation skill and to test the assumption that letters make it harder for prereaders to learn segmentation than nondistinctively marked visual aids. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
Bishop, Anne G.; League, Martha B. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2006
The purpose of this followup study was to determine the long-term predictive validity of theoretically coherent reading measures administered during fall and winter of kindergarten. Seventy-nine children were screened using measures representing letter identification, phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid automatized naming.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Recognition (Achievement), Reading Achievement
Simner, Marvin L. – 1992
This study evaluated the predictive validity of the Caregiver's School Readiness Inventory (CSRI), a new screening measure developed for use in situations in which it may not be appropriate to employ traditional screening measures to identify preschool children at risk for school failure. The three items of the CSRI concern: (1) children's books…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alphabets, At Risk Persons, Childrens Literature
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