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Lepola, Janne; Poskiparta, Elisa; Laakkonen, Eero; Niemi, Pekka – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2005
In this 2-year longitudinal study the developmental relationships among letter knowledge, phonological awareness, rapid naming, and task orientation were examined, and linguistic-motivational pathways of word reading acquisition were traced from kindergarten to Grade 1 by means of structural equation modeling. The participants were 100…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Prediction, Phonology, Phonemes
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Leppnen, Ulla; Niemi, Pekka; Aunola, Kaisa; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Reading Research Quarterly, 2004
This study investigated the trajectories of preschool and first-grade childrens development of reading skills, as well as the cognitive and social antecedents of that development. One-hundred and ninety-six 5- to 6-year-old children were tested in October and April of their preschool year and again in the first grade. Data included measures of…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Reading Skills, Literacy Education, Reading Instruction