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Download full textVenezky, Richard L. – 1972
To find how well children learn letter-sound correspondences when an orthography is highly regular, and how this ability relates to socioeconomic status (SES) and to reading ability, 240 Finnish children were tested for letter-sound generalizations. The test consisted of 25 synthetic words, constructed to look like Finnish words and to contain the…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Peer reviewedViitaniemi, Eero – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1983
Reports the methodology used to measure the reading ability of third and fourth grade pupils in Finnish "comprehensive" schools in 1964 and 1979. Notes that 1979 students had significantly higher abilities in all areas measured, despite decreases in standard deviations. Interprets results in the light of acceleration theory. (SB)
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
