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Jackson, 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

Wolf, 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