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Adams, Anne-Marie; Simmons, Fiona R.; Willis, Catherine S.; Porter, Sarah – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: The spontaneous recoding of visual stimuli into a phonological code to aid short-term retention has been associated with progress in learning to read (Palmer, 2000b). Aim: This study examined whether there was a comparable association with the development of writing skills. Sample: One hundred eight children (64 males) in the second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Skill Development, Cognitive Processes
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Papadimitriou, Artemis M.; Vlachos, Filippos M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The aim of this study was to examine if specific skills that are developed during preschool years could predict the reading performance in the first and second grade of primary school. Two hundred and eighty-seven children participated in this longitudinal study. At the kindergarten level, phonological awareness (PA), rapid automatised naming,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Skill Development, Reading Achievement