Current Arabic reading instruction places strong emphasis on orthographic skills and little
emphasis on phonological and morphological skills. Yet, the role of each skill in reading …

Teachers are asked to use reading science to inform how they teach phonics and
phonological awareness. As teachers look to the research base to guide their practice, some …

As children learn to read, they become sensitive to context-dependent vowel pronunciations
in words, considered a form of statistical learning. The work of Treiman and colleagues …

We know a great deal about children's first steps into reading. Here, we explore how they
become more sophisticated readers, learning to read complex words. Theoretical accounts …

Morphological awareness, or sensitivity to units of meaning, is an essential component of
reading comprehension development. Current neurobiological models of reading and …

This randomized controlled trial focused on 59 struggling readers in the third and fourth
grades (30 female, 29 male) and examined the efficacy of an intervention aimed at …

Programs for teaching English reading, especially for students with dyslexia, and
educational practice standards often recommend instruction on dividing polysyllabic words …

These studies examined the contribution of text, activity, and reader to variance in reading
comprehension test scores. Study 1 focused on multiple-choice and open-ended item …

The distinctive features of the Arabic language and orthography offer opportunities to
investigate multiple word characteristics at the item level. The aim of this paper was to model …

Abstract The Common Core State Standards emphasize the need for US students to read
complex texts. As a result, the level of word complexity for primary‐level texts is important …