ABSTRACT
Reading and writing are among the towering achievements of human cognition and are the hallmarks of modern civilization. Connections between these two abilities have been demonstrated (see Shanahan 2006 for a review). For example, writing behaviours in kindergarten children predict their subsequent reading achievement in first grade (Shatil, Share and Levin 2000), and the ability to read words correctly predicts spelling accuracy in typically developing young writers (Berninger, Abbott, Abbott, Graham and Richards 2002).
