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Peer reviewedBlatchford, Peter; Plewis, Ian – British Educational Research Journal, 1990
Presents results from 2 British studies relating preschool reading skills and reading attainment reached by age 11. Substantiates and extends earlier research that correlated early letter identification with reading ability at age seven. Also indicates no support for hypothesis that letter sounding rather than naming predicts subsequent reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Correlation, Early Reading, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedKenny, Dianna T.; Chekaluk, Eugene – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1993
The concurrent validity of three types of reading ability assessments was evaluated with 312 Australian primary-level children. Results suggest that the nature of the skills required for success in reading changes in the primary years, and that both teacher-based and test-based assessments concur more closely as children progress through the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Concurrent Validity, Foreign Countries, Handicap Identification
