The relationships among reading readiness, preferred sensory modality, and reading achievement of 82 first-grade boys and girls from a low socio-economic area of New York City were studied. A step-wise multiple-regression analysis indicated that the major variable related to predicting first-grade reading achievement was reading readiness.
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