1. Gender differences in reading performance on documents across countries

   • Monica Rosén

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 38

2. The role of vowels in reading Semitic scripts: Data from Arabic and Hebrew

   • Salim Abu-Rabia

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 59

3. Development of decoding, reading comprehension, vocabulary and spelling during the elementary school years

   • Cor Aarnoutse
   • Jan van Leeuwe
   • Han Oud

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 89

4. The role of phonological memory, word recognition, and comprehension skills in reading development: from preschool to grade 2

   • Mia Dufva
   • Pekka Niemi
   • Marinus J.M. Voeten

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 117

5. Nature and importance of the logographic phase in learning to read

   • Mireille Bastien-Toniazzo
   • Sandrine Jullien

   OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 143

6. The role of different levels of phonological awareness in the development of reading and spelling in Greek

   • Athanasios Aidinis
   • Terezinha Nunes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 177

7. The semantic effect on retrieval of radicals in logographic characters

   • Jun Yamada
   • Hiroomi Takashima

   OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 194