Shauna B. Wilson|Christopher J. Lonigan
Identifying Preschool Children at Risk of Later Reading Difficulties: Evaluation of Two Emergent Literacy Screening Tools
Florida State University|Florida State University
emergent literacy skills predictive childrens early reading success literacy achievement early schooling declines rapidly children belowaverage readers therefore important teachers identify accurately children risk later reading difficulty children exposed effective emergent literacy interventions study 176 preschoolers administered two screening tools revised get ready read grtrr individual growth development indicators igdis diagnostic measure two time points receiver operating characteristic curve analyses revealed optimal cut scores grtrr provided accurate classification childrens overall emergent literacy skills igdis however neither measure particularly good classifying specific emergent literacy skills