Paige-Rupley-2017
Authors: Paige DD, Rupley WH, Smith GS, Olinger C, Leslie M.
Publication: Child Development Research (Hindawi). Volume 2018 |Article ID 2142894 | 10 pages 2018 | DOI: 10.1155/2018/2142894
Abstract
This study measures letter naming, phonological awareness, and spelling knowledge in 2,100 kindergarten students attending 63 schools within a large, urban school district. Students were assessed across December, February, and May of the kindergarten year. Results found that, by May, 71.8% of students had attained full letter naming knowledge. Phonological awareness emerged more slowly with 48% of students able to reliably segment and blend phonemes in words. Spelling development, a measure of phonics knowledge, found that, by May, 71.8% of students were in the partial-alphabetic phase. A series of regression analyses revealed that by the end of kindergarten both letter naming and phonological awareness were significant predictors of spelling knowledge (b = .332 and .518 for LK and PA, resp.), explaining 52.7% of the variance.
