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We report the findings of a follow-up study of 34 9-year-old children who had participated in a longitudinal study of phonological and literacy development between the ages of 4 and 6 years. In a series of concurrent and longitudinal analyses, measures of phoneme awareness proved to be better predictors of spelling than measures of rime awareness. Children’s awareness of grammatical relations influenced their orthographic skills in spelling. Although we were able to demonstrate that later orthographic knowledge is influenced by earlier phonological processes, our results are also consistent with the view that awareness of grammatical rules has an important role in determining orthographic proficiency as children get older.
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Muter, V., Snowling, M. (1997). Grammar and phonology predict spelling in middle childhood. In: Treiman, R. (eds) Spelling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3054-9_6
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