Selma Babayi?it|Rhona Stainthorp
Preliterate phonological awareness and early literacy skills in Turkish
University of the West of England|University of Reading
role preschool phonological awareness early reading spelling skills investigated transparent orthography turkish fiftysix preschool children mean age56 years followed grade 2 mean age76 years preschool phonological awareness failed make reliable contribution future reading skills strongest longitudinal correlate spelling skills measured end grades 1 2 overall findings suggested phonological awareness may differentially related reading spelling spelling sensitive index phonological processing skills study verbal shortterm memory emerged powerful consistent longitudinal correlate reading speed finding raised important questions component processes reading speed role memory morphosyntactic skills agglutinative transparent orthography turkish