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Bohannon, John Neil, III; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Reports two studies which found a relationship between awareness of word order in sentences and reading readiness and achievement for children in kindergarten through third grade. Suggests this type of metalinguistic awareness may be important to early reading because it helps children to detect meaningful relationships between words. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Children, Longitudinal Studies, Reading Achievement, Reading Readiness