EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY SKILLS OF AN EXTREMELY PRECOCIOUS READER

Citation
Sj. Henderson et al., EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY SKILLS OF AN EXTREMELY PRECOCIOUS READER, The Gifted child quarterly, 37(2), 1993, pp. 78-83
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Education, Special
Journal title
ISSN journal
00169862
Volume
37
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
78 - 83
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-9862(1993)37:2<78:EDOLAL>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
Precocious literacy is a form of intellectual giftedness that occurs f requently in young children. This case study documents the emergence o f reading ability in an extremely precocious reader between the ages o f 2 years 7 months and 3 years 2 months. At the end of this period, th e child's word recognition ability was conservatively estimated at the late first-grade level, and he was able to use knowledge of some leve l of letter-sound correspondences to sound out unfamiliar words and ps eudowords. However, his writing skills did not begin to develop to a c omparable degree until after he was 4 years old. The results are used to generate hypotheses about the nature and measurement of precocious reading and its relations with oral language and writing skills.