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Acquisition of literacy: A longitudinal study of children in first and second grade.

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This article is published in Journal of Educational Psychology.The article was published on 1986-08-01. It has received 886 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Literacy & Longitudinal study.

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Child development and emergent literacy

TL;DR: It is proposed that emergent literacy consists of at least two distinct domains: inside-out skills and outside-in skills, which appear to be influential at different points in time during reading acquisition.
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Phonological recoding and self-teaching: sine qua non of reading acquisition.

TL;DR: This paper elaborates the self-teaching hypothesis, reviews relevant evidence, and notes that current models of word recognition fail to address the quintessential problem of reading acquisition-independent generation of target pronunciations for novel orthographic strings.
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Learning to read and write: A longitudinal study of 54 children from first through fourth grades.

TL;DR: The authors examined the development of literacy in one elementary school with a large minority, low socioeconomic status population, followed as they progressed from first through fourth grade, finding that good readers read considerably more than the poor readers both in and out of school, which appeared to contribute to the good readers' growth in some reading and writing skills.
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Reading for Understanding: Toward an R&D Program in Reading Comprehension

TL;DR: It is argued that the primary challenge of improving reading performance in the early grades is now to incorporate research based knowledge systematically into teacher preparation and practice.
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Oral language and code-related precursors to reading: Evidence from a longitudinal structural model.

TL;DR: This study examined code-related and oral language precursors to reading in a longitudinal study of 626 children from preschool through 4th grade, demonstrating that there is a high degree of continuity over time of both code- related and Oral language abilities.
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Handbook of Reading Research

TL;DR: The authors, The Sense of Being Literate: Historical and Cross-Cultural Features, is a collection of essays about the development of reading in the industrialized world with particular reference to the non-western world.
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Toward a theory of automatic information processing in reading

TL;DR: A model of information processing in reading is described in which visual information is transformed through a series of processing stages involving visual, phonological and episodic memory systems until it is finally comprehended in the semantic system.
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Decoding, Reading, and Reading Disability

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple model of reading is proposed, which holds that reading equals the product of decoding and comprehension, and it is argued that there must be three types of reading disability, resulting from an inability to decode or inability to comprehend, or both.
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Categorizing sounds and learning to read: A causal connection.

TL;DR: This paper found that children who are backward in reading are strikingly insensitive to rhyme and alliteration and are at a disadvantage when categorizing words on the basis of common sounds even in comparison with younger children who read no better than they do.
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Memory and cognition

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