Phonological skills and their role in learning to read: a meta-analytic review.

M Melby-Lervåg, SAH Lyster, C Hulme - Psychological bulletin, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
The authors report a systematic meta-analytic review of the relationships among 3 of the
most widely studied measures of children's phonological skills (phonemic awareness, rime …

Longitudinal predictors of reading and spelling across languages varying in orthographic consistency

GK Georgiou, M Torppa, G Manolitsis, H Lyytinen… - Reading and …, 2012 - Springer
We examined the longitudinal predictors of nonword decoding, reading fluency, and spelling
in three languages that vary in orthographic depth: Finnish, Greek, and English. Eighty-two …

Mind the orthography: Revisiting the contribution of prereading phonological awareness to reading acquisition.

C Zugarramurdi, L Fernández, M Lallier… - Developmental …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Reading acquisition is based on a set of preliteracy skills that lay the foundation for future
reading abilities. Phonological awareness—the ability to identify and manipulate the sound …

How is RAN related to reading fluency? A comprehensive examination of the prominent theoretical accounts

TC Papadopoulos, GC Spanoudis… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
We examined the prominent theoretical explanations of the RAN-reading relationship in a
relatively transparent language (Greek) in a sample of children (n= 286) followed from …

The relative predictive contribution and causal role of phoneme awareness, rhyme awareness, and verbal short-term memory in reading skills: A review

M Melby-Lervåg - Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The acknowledgement that educational achievement is highly dependent on successful
reading development has led to extensive research on its underlying factors. A strong …

Investigating the double-deficit hypothesis in Greek: Findings from a longitudinal study

TC Papadopoulos, GK Georgiou… - Journal of Learning …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined longitudinally the double-deficit hypothesis in Greek, an
orthographically consistent language, following a group of children from kindergarten to …

Processing demands of reading comprehension tests in young readers

P Kendeou, TC Papadopoulos, G Spanoudis - Learning and Instruction, 2012 - Elsevier
In the present study we examined the processing demands of three reading comprehension
tests, namely the Woodcock–Johnson Passage Comprehension (WJPC), a Curriculum …

Preschool phonological and morphological awareness as longitudinal predictors of early reading and spelling development in Greek

V Diamanti, A Mouzaki, A Ralli, F Antoniou… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Different language skills are considered fundamental for successful reading and spelling
acquisition. Extensive evidence has highlighted the central role of phonological awareness …

Relationships between phonological awareness and reading in Spanish: A meta‐analysis

C Míguez‐Álvarez, M Cuevas‐Alonso… - Language …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Previous meta‐analyses of the relationship between phonological awareness (PA) and
reading have been conducted mostly in children who speak English, a language with an …

Revisiting the home literacy model of reading development in an orthographically consistent language

G Manolitsis, GK Georgiou, R Parrila - Learning and Instruction, 2011 - Elsevier
We examined the applicability of the Home Literacy Model in an orthographically
transparent language (Greek). Seventy Greek children were followed from kindergarten until …