Precocious readers (PRs) are children who read and comprehend fluently in their native language, without receiving formal instruction. This study examined Hebrew-speaking PRs in comparison with a group of age-matched peers and a group of reading-level-matched peers. By examining Hebrew, which is a transparent orthography when it has diacritics and opaque without the diacritics, the study aimed to expand our understanding of PRs and shed light on universal and orthographic-specific aspects of precocious reading. Additionally, language and math are both code-based systems, yet previous studies largely neglected assessing PRs' math skills. Studying these skills can highlight the process of reading as a symbol system that needs decoding and further clarify its relationship with other symbol-based systems.

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早熟阅读的广阔视野

早熟阅读器 (PR) 是指在没有接受正式指导的情况下，能够以母语流利阅读和理解的儿童。本研究将讲希伯来语的 PR 与一组年龄匹配的同龄人和一组阅读水平匹配的同龄人进行比较。通过检查希伯来语，当它有变音符号时是一种透明的正字法，没有变音符号是不透明的，该研究旨在扩大我们对 PR 的理解，并阐明早熟阅读的普遍和正字法特定方面。此外，语言和数学都是基于代码的系统，但之前的研究在很大程度上忽略了评估 PR 的数学技能。学习这些技能可以突出阅读作为需要解码的符号系统的过程，并进一步阐明其与其他基于符号的系统的关系。