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Peer reviewedJackson, Nancy Ewald; Biemiller, Andrew J. – Child Development, 1985
Compared comprehension of kindergarten-age precocious readers (who read at the third-grade level) with second- and third-grade-age children. Results on measures of letter, scrambled word, and text reading times indicated that, for precocious readers, efficiency in lower-order tasks is not a prerequisite for rapid text reading and good…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Gifted, Kindergarten Children, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Peer reviewedO'Connor, Rollanda E.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1993
Comparison of "Distar Reading Mastery" and Addison Wesley's "Superkids" beginning reading programs with 81 children in transitional kindergarten special education classes found no significant differences at the end of the treatment year or at one-year follow-up. However, among children making the most gains, the Distar group…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Disabilities, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials
