The Prediction of Good and Poor Reading Before Kindergarten Entry: A 4-Year Follow-Up

Abstract

All preschool children of the same age-group in a small town (N = 180) were tested 6 months before kindergarten entry (M age = 4 years — 9 months) with the Holbrook Screening Battery (HSB). The HSB correctly identified 92% of children who scored as both good and poor readers 4 years later on the Stanford Achievement Test (Total Reading score.) A shorter battery (5 HSB subtests) was found to predict reading as well as did the total HSB battery of 15 subtests. In factor analysis, the 5 variables most 1978). Schaer and Crump (1976) point out that little is known of the actual benefit of early identification and the resulting remediation activities.

Prerequisite skills, early instruction, and success in first-grade reading: Selected results from a longitudinal study

“…In predicting to each of these grade levels, the language-based measures accounted for the greatest proportion of variance. Badian [1982] reported similar findings in predicting reading performance in first, second, and third grade based on assessments administered six months prior to kindergarten entry. In addition, de Hirsch et al [1966] and Jansky and de Hirsch [1972] obtained evidence that language deficits in kindergarten children presaged reading difficulties for the same children in second grade.…”

“…However, most studies designed to identify predictors of later reading difficulties have provided evidence that cognitive and linguistic characteristics, measured early in a child's school career, account for substantial proportions of variance in later reading performance. Moreover, when a variety of cognitive skills are examined, it typically is the linguistically based skills that are the strongest predictors of reading performance [de Hirsch et al, 1966;Jansky and de Hirsch, 1972;Satz et al, 1978;Badian, 1982;Butler et al, 1985;Catts, 19911. For example, Butler et al [1985] evaluated kindergarten children 011 a wide assortment of cognitive, linguistic, and visuo-spatial tasks and evaluated their reading skill in first, second, third, and sixth grade.…”

Kindergarten Readiness and Performance of Latino Children Participating in Reach out and Read

“…Low-literacy and poor educational attainment have been correlated with poor health outcomes and all-cause mortality [3,4]. Poor emergent literacy skills predict lower levels of academic achievement later [5][6][7]. Children from low-income, immigrant families are at risk for poor emergent literacy skills and reading difficulties [8].…”

Pygmalion dans les garderies — Une description de la nature des attentes que des éducatrices peuvent entretenir à l’égard des enfants

“…Aux Etats-Unis, les recherches menées auprès des jeunes enfants ont été réalisées à la maternelle et à la prématernelle «kindergarten» sur les variables prédictrices du succès ou de l'échec en différentes habiletés (Badian, 1982;Beckoffet Bender, 1989). On peut en inférer que ce milieu de recherche est similaire au milieu scolaire.…”