Genetic and Environmental Influences on Vocabulary and Reading Development

Title
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Vocabulary and Reading Development
Publication Date
2011
Author(s)
Olson, Richard K
Keenan, Janice M
Huslander, Jacquiline
Byrne, Brian J
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5532-9407
Email: bbyrne@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:bbyrne
Samuelsson, Stefan
Coventry, William L
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0864-5463
Email: wcovent2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:wcovent2
Corley, Robin
Wadsworth, Sally J
Willcutt, Erik G
DeFries, John C
Pennington, Bruce F
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1080/10888438.2011.536128
UNE publication id
une:7427
Abstract
Genetic and environmental relations between vocabulary and reading skills were explored longitudinally from preschool through Grades 2 and 4. At preschool there were strong shared-environment and weak genetic influences on both vocabulary and print knowledge but substantial differences in their source. Separation of etiology for vocabulary and reading continued for word recognition and decoding through Grade 4, but genetic and environmental correlations between vocabulary and reading comprehension approached unity by Grade 4, when vocabulary and word recognition accounted for all of the genetic and shared environment influences on reading comprehension.
Link
Citation
Scientific Studies of Reading, 15(1), p. 26-46
ISSN
1532-799X
1088-8438
Start page
26
End page
46

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