This special issue was expressly designed to illustrate how item-level analytic models can be employed to answer new questions in the field of reading. To accomplish this, we present a compilation of six empirical studies that explore how item-level analyses can be used to advance the field’s understanding of word reading development. In this introduction to the special issue, I summarize the unique advantages of item-level analyses and discuss how the papers in this special issue are valuable examples of how item-focused analyses can be used in a variety of ways to address important questions across orthographies, word characteristics, and tasks.

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充分利用项目级分析的承诺，以促进对单词阅读发展的新理解。

专门设计此期杂志是为了说明如何使用项目级分析模型来回答阅读领域的新问题。为此，我们提出了六项经验研究的汇编，探讨了如何使用项目级分析来提高该领域对单词阅读发展的理解。在本期特刊的简介中，我总结了项目级分析的独特优势，并讨论了本期特刊中的论文如何成为有价值的示例，说明了以项目为重点的分析如何以多种方式用于解决拼字法中的重要问题，字词特征和任务。