Brett Kessler|Tatiana Cury Pollo|Rebecca Treiman|Cláudia Cardoso?Martins
Frequency Analyses of Prephonological Spellings as Predictors of Success in Conventional Spelling
Washington University in St. Louis|Washington University in St. Louis|Federal University of São João del-Rei|Washington University in St. Louis|Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
present study explored childrens prephonological writing foretells differential learning outcomes primary school authors asked portuguesespeaking preschool children brazil mean age 4 year 3 months spell 12 words monte carlo tests used identify 31 children whose writing based spellings sounds target words two half years later children took standardized spelling test closely digram twoletter sequence frequencies preschool task correlated childrens books better scores children primary school preschoolers used letters name lower subsequent scores thus preschoolers whose prephonological writing revealed attentiveness statistical properties text subsequently performed better conventional spelling analytic techniques may help early identification children risk spelling difficulties