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

ABSTRACT A substantial amount of research has focused on children's reading
development and reading problems, but in comparison there has been relatively little …

What makes reading comprehension difficult, and how can we assess comprehension
effectively? Before we attempt to answer such questions, we need to outline the nature and …

Abstract The Simple View of Reading indicates that reading comprehension is based upon
two broad skills, language comprehension and word reading. This chapter explores the …

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 …

This chapter provides an overview of the research into the development of children's reading
comprehension skills. A number of aspects of comprehension skill that might limit the …

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 comprehension is widely agreed to be not one, but many things. At the least, it is
agreed to entail cognitive processes that operate on many different kinds of knowledge to …