Predictive value of pre-reading skills and general language ability at 3;6 for pre-reading skills at 5;0 – a longitudinal comparison study.
Pre-reading skills (PreRS; rapid automatised naming RAN, letter knowledge LK, lexical ability and phonological processing PP) are precursory skills specific to reading, thus described as code-related. Early identification of weak PreRS is essential regarding their predictive value for reading perfor...
| Published in: | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 288 - 306 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2026
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