Leijon I, et al. - In this longitudinal study, the researchers assessed the development of reading skills in very low birthweight (VLBW) infants born between January 1998 and December 1999 in Sweden and controls at 8–10 years of age. For this analysis, they enrolled 49 VLBW children and 44 sex and age-matched full-term controls when they started school at the age of 7 and tested them using identical methods for decoding, rapid naming ability, reading comprehension, and spelling and cognitive skills at about eight and 10 years of age. According to the findings obtained, very low birthweight children showed worse reading performance at eight years of age than term-born controls. Two years later, the gap in reading skills between the groups had largely narrowed.