摘要:AbstractThe study investigated the contribution of phonological awareness, morphological awareness and vocabulary to decoding in grades 1 and 2 using structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis. SEM analysis with latent variables revealed that in grade 1 only phonological awareness predicted reading, while in grade 2 decoding was not predicted by any of the predictors involved. We concluded that in a phonologically simple language such as Greek, phonological awareness has a central role in the prediction of decoding during the first year of reading acquisition. On the contrary, morphology does not play a role in early word reading even thoughGreek is a morphologically complex language.