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Burns, Jeanne M.; And Others – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1991
This study compared intellectually superior students (ages 8-9) identified as accelerated readers (n=11) or nonreaders (n=8) at the age of 4 and provided similar types of elementary school basal reading instruction. Accelerated readers scored higher than nonreaders on measures of word attack and dictation, with no differences on word recognition…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Early Reading