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Eldredge, J. Lloyd – 1993
To validate a group phonics test designed to measure students' phonics knowledge, a study examined possible causal relationships of phonics knowledge and sight word recognition, sight word fluency, general reading fluency, and reading comprehension. Subjects, 95 first graders, 95 second graders, and 95 third graders chosen at random from 3 schools…
Descriptors: Correlation, Developmental Stages, Models, Phonics

Zifcak, Michael – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1981
It was proposed that the young child's awareness of the phonology of language would influence early reading success. Results revealed a strong relationship between the first grader's reading performance and two measures of his/her phonological awareness, invented spelling and phoneme segmentation abilities. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade 1, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonemes

Eldredge, J. Lloyd; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1990
Findings from a study of 504 second grade students indicate that phonics knowledge has a causal impact on both reading comprehension and vocabulary gains; reading comprehension has a causal effect on vocabulary gains. (Author/IAH)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Correlation, Decoding (Reading), Grade 2