The idea of Matthew effects in reading—the widening achievement gap between good and
poor readers—has attracted considerable attention in education research in the past 25 …

This systematic review explores the impact of teacher professional development (PD) on
student reading achievement. The first part of the literature evaluates all available existing …

The home literacy environment is a well-established predictor of children's language and
literacy development. We investigated whether formal, informal, and indirect measures of the …

The simple view of reading proposes that reading comprehension is the product of word
reading and language comprehension. In this study, we used the simple view framework to …

This study examined the dynamic relationships among the components of the Simple View
of Reading (SVR) in a transparent orthography (Finnish) and the predictive value of …

This paper examined if difficulty in reading comprehension (PISA) is distinct from difficulty in
reading fluency and if the distinct types of reading difficulties are differently associated with …

Most research on early identification of reading disabilities has focused on word reading
problems and little attention has been given to reading comprehension difficulties. In this …

As teachers grapple with the challenge of a new, bigger and more challenging school
curriculum, at every key stage and phase, success can feel beyond our reach. But what if …

Shared reading research has become increasingly multidisciplinary and has incorporated a
multitude of assessment methods. This calls for an interdisciplinary perspective on children's …

Modern behavior-genetic studies of twins in the United States, Australia, Scandinavia, and
the United Kingdom show that genes account for most of the variance in children's reading …