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What Predicts Later Reading Success for Kindergarten Students?(Share, Jorm, Maclean, & Matthews, 1984)

v Whether or not the child attended

preschool

v Amount that parents read in their

spare time

v Gender

v Amt. that parents read to their

child

v Numbers of books the child owns

v Library membership

v Parent’s occupational status

v Performance on Peabody Picture

Vocabulary Test

v Kindergarten teacher’s

prediction of reading success

v Letter names-knows alphabet

v Phoneme segmentation ability

11 Related factors - rank order “1” being high