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Direct linkByrne, Brian; Wadsworth, Sally; Corley, Robin; Samuelsson, Stefan; Quain, Peter; DeFries, John C.; Willcutt, Erik; Olson, Richard K. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2005
We conducted behavior?genetic analyses of kindergarten reading, spelling, phonological awareness, rapid naming, and spoken sentence processing in 172 pairs of monozygotic and 153 pairs of same-sex dizygotic twin kindergarten children sampled in the United States and Australia. We also modeled progress from preschool to kindergarten in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonology, Kindergarten, Spelling
Peer reviewedByrne, Brian; Fielding-Barnsley, Ruth; Ashley, Luise – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2000
Reports on a study of Grade 5 children who had been trained in phoneme identity six years earlier. Results reveal that these children were superior to untrained controls on irregular word reading and on a composite list of nonwords, regular words, and irregular words. Preschool instruction in phonemic structure had modest but detectable effects on…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Intermediate Grades, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
