Links between early oral narrative and decoding skills and later reading in a New Zealand sampleFootnote^*

^*Data presented in this article were collected when the second author was a doctoral student at the University of Otago. Portions of these data were presented at the International Reading Comprehension Symposium, University of Canterbury, 4 – 5 October 2012.

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