Does household access to improved water and sanitation in infancy and childhood
predict better vocabulary test performance in Ethiopian, Indian, Peruvian and Vietnamese cohort studies?
Not exact matches
First - grade Spanish narrative scores were
best predicted by kindergarten Spanish
vocabulary scores.
Also, improvement on the
vocabulary test
predicted better performance on the state English Language Arts assessment.
Noting that children's
vocabulary at age four
predicts their reading comprehension in third grade and beyond, the report recommends starting ongoing, developmentally appropriate assessments of children's language and literacy development
well before they enter school.