The knowledge of letter names measured just before children enter school has been known
for a long time as one of the best longitudinal predictors of learning to read in an alphabetic …

Purpose Orthographic knowledge refers to the information that is stored in memory that tells
us how to represent spoken language in written form. Unfortunately, terms used to talk about …

If learning to read effectively is a journey toward ever-increasing ability to comprehend texts,
then teachers are the tour guides, ensuring that students stay on course, pausing to make …

Experiment 1 examined the time course of orthographic learning among Grade 3 children. A
single encounter with a novel orthographic string was sufficient to produce reliable recall of …

This review examines the theory and empirical research into how oral language (speaking
and listening) is related to literacy (reading, writing, and spelling), how the components of …

The effect of reading an electronic storybook (e-book) on Israeli children's language and
literacy was examined in kindergarten children (N= 40; age 5: 2–6: 3) compared to first …

Writing is a critical emergent literacy skill that lays the foundation for children's later literacy
skills and reading achievement. Recent work indicates that many early childhood programs …

Two studies investigated the importance of phoneme awareness relative to other predictors
in the development of reading and spelling among children learning a consistent …

This study explored the development of children's early understanding of visual and
orthographic aspects of print and how this is related to early reading acquisition. A total of …

The purpose of this study was to examine which emergent literacy skills contribute to
preschool children's emergent writing (name-writing, letter-writing, and spelling) skills …