Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the comprehension problems of children
who have a specific reading comprehension deficit (SCD), which is characterized by poor …

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 …

Listening comprehension and word decoding are the two major determinants of the
development of reading comprehension. The relative importance of different language skills …

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 …

Purpose To examine concurrently and retrospectively the language abilities of children with
specific reading comprehension deficits (“poor comprehenders”) and compare them to …

Although proficiency in vocabulary has long been recognized as basic to reading
proficiency, there has been a paucity of research on vocabulary teaching and learning over …

The authors report data from a longitudinal study of the reading development of children
who were assessed in the years of their 8th, 11th, 14th, and 16th birthdays. They examine …

Purpose Individual differences in vocabulary development may affect academic or social
opportunities. It has been proposed that individual differences in word reading could affect …

Background: Poor comprehenders have difficulty comprehending connected text, despite
having age‐appropriate levels of reading accuracy and fluency. We used a longitudinal …