Some environmental influences, including intentional interventions, have shown persistent
effects on psychological characteristics and other socially important outcomes years and …

This Campbell systematic review examines the relationships between skills in preschool
and later reading comprehension. The review summarizes evidence from 64 longitudinal …

Our aim in the present paper is to discuss a “cognitive view” of reading comprehension, with
particular attention to research findings that have the potential to improve our understanding …

This chapter lays the foundation for an understanding of what reading comprehension is and
how it is conceptualised in the literature. It develops the notion that reading comprehension …

The authors examined the development of oral language and decoding skills from preschool
to early elementary school and their relation to beginning reading comprehension using a …

A Map to the Magic of Reading Stop for a moment and wonder: what's happening in your
brain right now—as you read this paragraph? How much do you know about the …

Current research has shown that comprehension can vary depending on text and question
types and that readers' word recognition and background knowledge may account for these …

Inference ability is considered central to discourse processing and has been shown to be
important across models of reading comprehension. To evaluate the impact of inference …

This longitudinal study examined the performance of poor comprehenders on several
reading-related abilities in the late elementary school years. We identified 3 groups of …

In an effort to understand cognitive foundations of oral language comprehension (ie,
listening comprehension), we examined how inhibitory control, theory of mind, and …