Table 9.

Aspects of the countries involved in intervention studies with children at familial risk of dyslexia

Aspects	Countries
	Denmark	Australia	The Netherlands
Orthography	Deep	Deep	Relatively shallow
Age first year formal RI	6–7 years	4–5 years	5–6 years
Phonics in regular RI	About 20% of teaching time	About 30% of teaching time	Dominant teaching method
N hour RI in 1st year formal RI	3–4 h per week	About 5 h per week	6.5–7 h per week
PA and LK in year prior to formal reading instruction	<1 h per week	Little	About 1 h per week

RI reading instruction, PA phoneme awareness, LK letter knowledge