Early phonological skills as a predictor of reading acquisition: A follow-up study from kindergarten to the middle of grade 2

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-124

  Sprugevica, Ieva ^a   Høien, Torleiv ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b Dyslexia Research Foundation   (Norway)

Author keywords

Growth curve analysis; Naming; Phonemic awareness; Sentence reading; Verbal short term memory; Word reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH;

AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; READING; SPEECH;

EID: 0038576982     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9450.00329     Document Type: Article

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