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Georgiou, George; Inoue, Tomohiro; Parrila, Rauno – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine if word reading and vocabulary are reciprocally related. Method: We followed a sample of 172 English-speaking Canadian children (82 girls, 90 boys; M[subscript age] = 75.87 months at the first measurement point) from the beginning of Grade 1 until the beginning of Grade 3 and assessed them three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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McGonnell, Melissa; Parrila, Rauno; Deacon, S. Helene – Exceptionality Education Canada, 2007
Self-report is a time- and cost-efficient screening measure that has the potential to be useful as a stand-alone means of recruiting adults for participation in reading research. We report on a sample of university students (N=46) recruited using the Adult Reading History Questionnaire-Revised, half of whom reported early difficulty with reading…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Student Recruitment, Reading Difficulties, Reading Research
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Georgiou, George, K.; Parrila, Rauno; Kirby, John – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2006
This study examines how rapid automatized naming (RAN) components-articulation time and pause time-develop from kindergarten to the end of first grade and how RAN components are related to different reading measures and to RAN total time. Sixty-two children were administered RAN tasks in kindergarten and at the beginning and end of Grade 1.…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Early Reading, Kindergarten, Reading Fluency
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Parrila, Rauno; Kirby, John R.; McQuarrie, Lynn – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2004
This study examines how measures of articulation rate, verbal short-term memory (STM), naming speed, and phonological awareness tasks administered in kindergarten and again in Grade 1 jointly and uniquely predict word reading and passage comprehension variance in Grades 1, 2, and 3. Results from regression and commonality analyses indicated that…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Comprehension, Phonological Awareness, Short Term Memory
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Parrila, Rauno; Aunola, Kaisa; Leskinen, Esko; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Kirby, John R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
The authors examined individual differences in reading development in English and Finnish. English-speaking Canadian children were assessed once per year in Grades 1-5, and Finnish children were assessed twice per year in Grades 1-2. Results from latent growth curve and simplex analyses showed that initial status was generally negatively…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Skills, Longitudinal Studies, Individual Differences