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 their success at primary school.
It found that children who score above average at Key Stage 1 score highly in the early learning goals for dispositions and attitudes and social development.
The research results were obtained by the Liberal Democrats under the Freedom of Information Act.
Liberal Democrat spokeswoman Annette Brooke said, 'There are serious doubts over whether highly prescriptive literacy goals are necessary. They should be removed from the curriculum pending the results of an independent review. Ministers have always given the impression that they were confident that these goals benefit children's learning.'
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