Previous research suggests that (a) individual differences in reading and language
development are stable across childhood,(b) reading and vocabulary are intertwined, and …

What is the role of oral language in reading competence during the transition to school? Is
oral language in preschool best conceptualized as vocabulary knowledge or as more …

Shared book reading is the best way that parents can prepare their children to learn to read
(Anderson, Heibert, Scott, & Wilkerson, 1985). In the last 20 years, parents of young children …

Background Strong associations between infant vocabulary and school‐age language and
literacy skills would have important practical and theoretical implications: Preschool …

International assessments show that 20% of adolescents cannot read simple texts with
understanding. Despite this, research has focused on early reading in childhood and skilled …

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

Although children's early language skills have been found to predict literacy outcomes, little
is known about the role of preschool oral narrative skills in the pathway between language …

Background Linguistic comprehension and narrative skills encapsulate a complex array of
grammatical and semantic skills that underpin complex reading comprehension processes …

MOLLY FULLER COLLINS Boston University, Massachusetts, USA nterest in the
relationship between early language development and children's later reading skill has …

This paper reports a study that followed the development of reading skills in 72 children from
the age of 8.5 to 13 years. Each child was administered tests of reading, oral language …