caa a22 4500 386359377 CHVBK 20180307111910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900010485 doi S0305000900010485 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900010485 Nursery rhymes, phonological skills and reading [Elektronische Daten] Nursery rhymes are an almost universal part of young English-speaking children's lives. We have already established that there are strong links between children's early knowledge of nursery rhymes at 3;3 and their developing phonological skills over the next year and a quarter. Since such skills are known to be related to children's success in learning to read, this result suggests the hypothesis that acquaintance with nursery rhymes might also affect children's reading. We now report longitudinal data from a group of 64 children from the age of 3;4 to 6;3 which support this hypothesis. There is a strong relation between early knowledge of nursery rhymes and success in reading and spelling over the next three years even after differences in social background, I.Q and the children's phonological skills at the start of the project are taken into account. This raises the question of how nursery rhymes have such an effect. Our answer is that knowledge of nursery rhymes enhances children's phonological sensitivity which in turn helps them to learn to read. This paper presents further analyses which support the idea of this path from nursery rhymes to reading. Nursery rhymes are related to the child's subsequent sensitivity to rhyme and phonemes. Moreover the connection between knowledge of nursery rhymes and reading and spelling ability disappears when controls are made for differences in these subsequent phonological skills. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Bryant P. E. University of Oxford Bradley L. University of Oxford Maclean M. University of Oxford Crossland J. University of Oxford Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989-06), 407-428 0305-0009 16:2<407 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010485 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010485 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bryant P. E. University of Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bradley L. University of Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Maclean M. University of Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crossland J. University of Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989-06), 407-428 0305-0009 16:2<407 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge