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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
Download full textLesgold, Alan M.; Curtis, Mary E. – 1980
The research described in this report is the first part of an attempt to study the development of both overall reading ability and verbal encoding efficiency in an effort to see how the two are related. The report proposes a theory of prerequisite or hierarchical relationships and suggests that there may be differences between performance of a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes, Longitudinal Studies
