Publications
Pyle, A., Steacy, L., Mattatall, C., Wade-Woolley, L., & Picard, E. (July 2009). Kids helping kids: The impact of PALS on the reading skills of at-risk Grade 1 students. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Boston, MA.
Wade-Woolley, L., & Sparks, E. (in preparation). Vowel spelling in multisyllabic words: The roles of phonological awareness, stress and morphology.
Goodman, I., Libenson, A. & Wade-Woolley, L. (in press). Sensitivity to linguistic stress, phonological awareness and early reading ability in preschoolers. Journal of Research in Reading.
Wood, C., Wade-Woolley, L. & Holliman, A. (2009). Phonological awareness: Beyond phonemes. In C. Wood & V. Connelly (Eds.) The Development of Reading and Spelling: Contemporary Perspectives, (pp. 7 -23). London: Routledge.
Clin, E. M., Wade-Woolley, L. & Heggie, L. (2009). Prosodic sensitivity and morphological awareness in children’s reading. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 197-213.
Fraser, C. (April 2009) Learning to read in different orthographies: Implications of first language Korean orthography on learning to read English. Presented at the annual meeting of the Education Graduate Student Society Conference, Montreal, QC.
Barnes, M. A., Martinussen, R., Swanson, L. & Wade-Woolley, L. (2008, June). Combining Response-to-Intervention and norm-referenced approaches to learning disability identification in international research forums: Yay or Nay? Roundtable at the International Association for Research on Learning Disabilities, Toronto, ON.
Heggie, L., Wade-Woolley, L. & Clin, E. M. (2008, July). Prosodic sensitivity and morphological awareness in children’s reading. Presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Asheville, NC.
Li, M., Kirby, J. R., Cheng, L., Qiang, H. & Wade-Woolley, L. (2008, July). Predictors of reading comprehension in Chinese English-immersion students. Presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Asheville, NC.
Sparks, E. & Wade-Woolley, L. (2008, July). Investigating the role of prosodic sensitivity and morphological awareness in children’s vowel spelling. Presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Asheville, NC.
Wade-Woolley, L. & Mattatall, C. A. (2008, July). Morphoprosodic sensitivity and reading in elementary school children. Presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Asheville, NC.
Clin, E. M., Heggie, L. & Wade-Woolley, L. (2008, March). Count on reading: Phonological awareness’ role in the literacy and numeracy of preschoolers. Poster presented at the 40th Banff International Conference on Behavioural Science, Banff, AB.
David, D., Wade-Woolley, L., Kirby, J. R. & Smithrim, K. (2007). Rhythm and reading development in school-age children: A longitudinal study. Journal of Research in Reading, 30, 169-183.
Clin, E. M. & Wade-Woolley, L. (2007, July). Investigating the role of prosody in the development of fluent reading. Presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Prague.
Cormier, P. & Wade-Woolley, L. (2007). A test of cross linguistic transfer: Training phonological awareness in French immersion children. Presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Prague.
Goodman, I., Wade-Woolley, L. & Libenson, A. (2007, July). Sensitivity to lexical and metrical stress in phonological awareness and early reading development. Poster presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Prague.
Wade-Woolley, L. (2007, July). Stress assignment and derivational morphology in skilled reading. Paper presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Prague.
Conod, J., Wade-Woolley, L. & Cormier, P. (2007, June). Learner characteristics of poor responders: A grade 1 French Immersion study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network, Calgary, AB.
Clin, E., Wade-Woolley, L. & MacCoubrey, S. (2006, July). What predicts L2 alphabet knowledge in French Immersion Kindergarten students? Poster presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Vancouver, BC.
David, D. & Wade-Woolley, L. (2006, July). Lexical stress and early reading skills in preschool children. Poster presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Vancouver, BC.
Heggie, L., Wade-Woolley, L., Goetry, V., & Sabourin, C. (2006, July). Children’s use of syllable and rime as orthographic units of reading in English. Poster presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Vancouver, BC.
Yuen, Y., & Wade-Woolley, L. (2006, July). Influence of nonlinguistic factors on Chinese and English reading. Poster presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Vancouver, BC.
Wade-Woolley, L. & Akaoka, E. (2006, July). Using linguistic stress information in reading. Poster presented at the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, Vancouver, BC.
Deacon, S. H. & Wade-Woolley, L. (2005, July). Developing bilinguals: How the relationship between morphological awareness and reading changes as language skills increase. Paper resented at the annual meeting of the Scientific Studies of Reading, Toronto.
Yuen, W. S. Y., & Wade-Woolley, L. (2005, July). Phonological representation and English reading in Chinese ESL children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Scientific Studies of Reading, Toronto.
Davydovskaia, M., Goetry, V. & Wade-Woolley, L. (2005, July). Orthographic differentiation between first and second language in the reading and spelling of French immersion students. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Scientific Studies of Reading, Toronto.
Jared, D., Cormier, P., Levy, B. A. & Wade-Woolley, L. (2005, July). The development of reading fluency in native English speakers enrolled in French immersion. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Scientific Studies of Reading, Toronto.
Wade-Woolley, L. (2005, July). Discussing rhythmic awareness and reading development. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Scientific Studies of Reading, Toronto.
David, D., Yuen, Y., Kirby, J. R., Smithrim, K. & Wade-Woolley, L. (2005, July). Does musical rhythm predict reading ability in the primary grades? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Scientific Studies of Reading, Toronto.
MacCoubrey, S. J., Wade-Woolley, L., Klinger, D. & Kirby, J. R. (2004). Early identification of at-risk readers in a second language, Canadian Modern Language Review, 61, 11-28.