Reading comprehension is a complex task which depends on a range of cognitive and
linguistic processes. According to the Simple View of Reading, this complexity can be …

The aim of this chapter is to review what is known about reading comprehension difficulties
in children, with a view to addressing two major issues. First, although individuals who …

The ultimate aim of reading is not the process but to understand what we read and
comprehension can take place at many different levels. There has been an increasing …

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 …

Background. Accurate assessment of reading difficulties is clearly important if appropriate
support and remediation is to be provided. Many different reading tests are routinely used …

This paper reviews recent experimental findings that inform our understanding of the
development of reading comprehension. Studies investigating children who have specific …

The simple view of reading highlights the importance of two primary components which
account for individual differences in reading comprehension across development: word …

Developing Reading Comprehension “In recent years the debate about teaching young
children to read has tended to focus upon equipping them with the crucially important …

Reading can be considered to comprise two component skills; word recognition and
comprehension. The skilled reader needs to identify the individual words of a text and …

Background: In reading research, children with specific language impairment (SLI) have
tended to be included in groups of children expected to have difficulties with both decoding …