How the science of reading informs 21st‐century education

Y Petscher, SQ Cabell, HW Catts… - Reading research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The science of reading should be informed by an evolving evidence base built on the
scientific method. Decades of basic research and randomized controlled trials of …

Unpicking the developmental relationship between oral language skills and reading comprehension: It's simple, but complex

A Lervåg, C Hulme, M Melby‐Lervåg - Child development, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Listening comprehension and word decoding are the two major determinants of the
development of reading comprehension. The relative importance of different language skills …

Decoding and reading comprehension: A meta-analysis to identify which reader and assessment characteristics influence the strength of the relationship in English

JR García, K Cain - Review of educational research, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The twofold purpose of this meta-analysis was to determine the relative importance of
decoding skills to reading comprehension in reading development and to identify which …

The simple view of reading: Advancements and false impressions

HW Catts - Remedial and Special Education, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, I highlight the impact that the simple view of reading (SVR) has had on the field
of reading over the last 30 years. I argue that the SVR has led to many significant …

Low working memory capacity is only spuriously related to poor reading comprehension

JA Van Dyke, CL Johns, A Kukona - Cognition, 2014 - Elsevier
Accounts of comprehension failure, whether in the case of readers with poor skill or when
syntactic complexity is high, have overwhelmingly implicated working memory capacity as …

Unique and common effects of decoding and language factors in predicting reading comprehension in grades 1–10

BR Foorman, Y Petscher, S Herrera - Learning and Individual Differences, 2018 - Elsevier
This investigation examined unique and common effects of decoding and language factors
that explain variance in reading comprehension in grades 1–10. Participants were 2938 …

Vocabulary does not complicate the simple view of reading

D Braze, L Katz, JS Magnuson, WE Mencl, W Tabor… - Reading and writing, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Gough and Tunmer's (1986) simple view of reading (SVR) proposed that reading
comprehension (RC) is a function of language comprehension (LC) and word …

Preschool phonological and morphological awareness as longitudinal predictors of early reading and spelling development in Greek

V Diamanti, A Mouzaki, A Ralli, F Antoniou… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Different language skills are considered fundamental for successful reading and spelling
acquisition. Extensive evidence has highlighted the central role of phonological awareness …

Examining sources and mechanisms of reading comprehension difficulties: Comparing English learners and non-English learners within the simple view of reading.

E Cho, P Capin, G Roberts, GJ Roberts… - Journal of educational …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
In the present study, we compared the extent to which linguistic comprehension (vocabulary
and listening comprehension) and word reading explain reading comprehension …

What is listening comprehension and what does it take to improve listening comprehension?

YSG Kim, H Pilcher - Interventions in learning disabilities: A handbook on …, 2016 - Springer
One's ability to listen and comprehend spoken language of multiple utterances and oral texts
(ie, listening comprehension) is one of the necessary component skills in reading and …