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Mesa, Carol; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the kindergarten, first-, and second-grade predictors of reading comprehension in bilingual children. Specifically, we evaluated the role that Spanish and English skills play in predicting English reading comprehension in third grade. Method: As part of a longitudinal study, 248 bilingual children…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 3, Reading Comprehension, Spanish
Mesa, Carol; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria – Grantee Submission, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd-grade predictors of reading comprehension in bilingual children. Specifically, we evaluated the role that Spanish and English skills play in predicting English reading comprehension in 3rd grade. Method: As part of a longitudinal study, 248 bilingual children were…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 3, Reading Comprehension, Spanish
Chiu, Y. D. – Remedial and Special Education, 2018
We assessed the simple view of reading as a framework for Grade 3 reading comprehension in two ways. We first confirmed that a structural equation model in which word recognition, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension were assessed by multiple measures to inform each latent construct provided an adequate fit to this model in Grade 3.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Grade 3, Word Recognition
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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Gilbert, Jennifer K.; Fuchs, Douglas; Seethaler, Pamela M.; N. Martin, BrittanyLee – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2018
This study was designed to deepen insights on whether word-problem (WP) solving is a form of text comprehension (TC) and on the role of language in WPs. A sample of 325 second graders, representing high, average, and low reading and math performance, was assessed on (a) start-of-year TC, WP skill, language, nonlinguistic reasoning, working memory,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Oral Language, Predictor Variables, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Adams, Ashley – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the EMBRACE Spanish support intervention for at-risk dual language learners and to determine which verbal and nonverbal characteristics of students were related to benefit from the intervention. The first study examined oral language and reading characteristics and the second study…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension, Handheld Devices, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Proctor, C. Patrick; Harring, Jeffrey R.; Silverman, Rebecca D. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2017
This study explored effects of Spanish oral language skills (vocabulary and syntax) on the development of English oral language skills (vocabulary, morphology, semantics, syntax) and reading comprehension among 156 bilingual Latino children in second through fifth grade whose first language was Spanish and whose second language was English. Using…
Descriptors: Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction