The aim of the present thesis was to examine the cognitive and language profile in children
with poor reading comprehension using a longitudinal perspective. Even though …

The changing job market requires a sophisticated array of literacy skills that adolescents
with learning disabilities reading below grade level have not yet acquired. This summary of …

This chapter focuses on instructional strategies for improving reading comprehension of
students with learning disabilities (LD). It discusses the nature of reading comprehension …

The simple view of reading describes reading as the product of decoding (D) and listening
comprehension (LC). However, the simple view of reading has been challenged, and …

Many adolescents struggle to comprehend text, a fact which has led educational
researchers to speculate that these reading struggles might be linked with students' levels of …

Purpose: We will describe how a multisite research team adapted a language-focused
curriculum to be used in a scale-up project. Specifically, we identified underlying principles …

The purposes of this study were to evaluate the within-and cross-language relations of
components of the simple view of reading and to evaluate correlates of reading …

This study examined overlap and correlates of poor reading comprehension in English and
French for children in early French immersion. Poor comprehenders were identified in grade …

A substantial population of children and adolescents struggle with reading comprehension
despite adequate phonemic decoding (word‐level reading) and intellectual ability …

The ability to read and comprehend texts is an essential component of successful
functioning in our world. A substantial amount of information comes to us through written …