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Peer reviewedHess, Thomas M.; Radtke, Robert C. – Child Development, 1981
Analyzes the roles of verbal coding skills, processing efficiency, and memory ability in accounting for individual and developmental differences in the reading comprehension of children in grades 3 through 8. Results indicate that skill differences can arise through ability differences at two independent levels--processing speed and memory.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Individual Differences, Language Processing
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 reviewedWolf, Maryanne; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Studies the development of word-retrieval speed and its relationship to reading in 72 average and 11 severely impaired readers in kindergarten through the second grade. (HOD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
