Rocket – The Role of Orthographic Knowledge in Reading and Spelling Development

Project Description

Phonological awareness, auditory memory and naming speed have proven to be important components of children’s literacy development. However, little is known about the role of orthographic knowledge.
The project Rocket aims at investigating the contribution of orthographic knowledge in reading and spelling development. In order to uncover the longitudinal contribution and relations of orthographic knowledge and aforementioned component skills, children at an early stage of literacy development will be repeatedly assessed over several points in time. The planned longitudinal analyses should help to better understand the role of orthographic knowledge and its interaction with other component skills for reading and spelling development.

Project Objectives

The aim is to investigate the relations between orthographic knowledge, phonological awareness, auditory memory, naming speed and reading and spelling development.

Funding

IDeA Centre

Publications

Marković, J., Brod, G., & Tetzlaff, L. (2024). The impact of orthographic knowledge on reading development in German third graders. Reading and Writing. doi:10.1007/s11145-024-10560-5

Zarić, J., Hasselhorn, M., & Nagler, T. (2021). Orthographic knowledge predicts reading and spelling skills over and above general intelligence and phonological awareness. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 36, 21-43.

Zarić, J., & Nagler, T. (2021). Reading comprehension on word- and sentence-level can be predicted by orthographic knowledge for German children with poor reading proficiency. Reading and Writing, 34, 2031-2057.

Project Management

Project Team

• Fenke Kachisi
• Dr. Leonard Tetzlaff

Project Details