George Manolitsis|Ioannis Grigorakis|George K. Georgiou
The Longitudinal Contribution of Early Morphological Awareness Skills to Reading Fluency and Comprehension in Greek
Crete University Press|University of Crete|Crete University Press|University of Crete|University of Alberta
purpose longitudinal study examine role three morphological awareness skills inflection derivation compounding word reading fluency reading comprehension relatively transparent orthography greek two hundred fifteen 104 girls mean age 6740 months kindergarten greek children followed kindergarten k grade 2 g2 k grade 1 g1 tested measures two inflectional two derivational three compounding letter knowledge phonological awareness rapid automatized naming general cognitive ability vocabulary nonverbal iq end g1 g2 also tested word reading fluency reading comprehension results hierarchical regression analyses showed inflectional derivational aspects k well aspects g1 accounted 2 5 unique variance reading comprehension none morphological awareness skills predicted word reading fluency controlling effects vocabulary rapid automatized naming findings suggest skills even assessed early kindergarten play significant role reading comprehension development