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Studies conflict over literacy skills
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
17 July 2008
Unpublished Government research appears to contradict the findings of an internal report carried out by the Department for Children, Schools and Families last month, which found a direct link between young children's abilities to write short sentences and to use punctuation at the age of five and their Key Stage 1 results.
The new findings suggest that children's speaking skills have more impact on their writing abilities. The research also found that children's achievement at Key Stage 1 related to their abilities across a wide range of early learning goals, and in particular, that children's scores in the literacy goals have little effect on...
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