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Direct linkJessie Leigh Nielsen; Rikke Vang Christensen; Mads Poulsen – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
The present study examined whether syntactic comprehension constitutes a source of individual differences separate from vocabulary and of relevance to reading comprehension. One hundred and sixty-one Danish Grade 6 students completed multiple tests of syntactic comprehension, vocabulary, decoding, and reading comprehension. Syntax measures were…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
The Contributions of Individual Oral Language Skills to Kindergarten Students' Reading Comprehension
Jamie L. Metsala; Erin Sparks; Margaret D. David – Journal of Research in Reading, 2025
Background: Research has demonstrated that distinct oral language skills contribute unique variance to text comprehension in students from second grade onward. This study examined these relationships for kindergarten students whose comprehension is often assumed to be determined by word decoding skills. Method: Eighty-eight kindergarten students…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension, Kindergarten
