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Cameron, Tracy A.; Taumoepeau, Mele; Clarke, Kristina; McDowall, Philippa; Schaughency, Elizabeth – School Psychology, 2020
This study describes trajectories of early literacy skill development of 99 children (n = 55 boys) in their first year of primary school in New Zealand (NZ). Children were assessed twice weekly for 8 weeks on Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS; Good & Kaminski, 2011) First Sound Fluency (FSF) and AIMSweb Letter Sound…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Skill Development, Reading Instruction
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Suggate, Sebastian; Reese, Elaine; Lenhard, Wolfgang; Schneider, Wolfgang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Beginning readers in shallow orthographies acquire word reading skills more quickly than in deep orthographies like English. In addition to extending this evidence base by comparing reading acquisition in English with the more transparent German, we conducted a longitudinal study and investigated whether different early reading skills made…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, German, English
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Cheung, Him – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2007
Previous studies have shown that phonological awareness correlates with children's reading aloud and also adults' literacy experience. More recent research has further suggested that phonological awareness is associated with the processing of spoken language, which is a correlate of reading comprehension. In this paper, I argue that phonological…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Speech, Reading Comprehension, Oral Language