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Clemens, Nathan H.; Hsiao, Yu-Yu; Lee, Kejin; Martinez-Lincoln, Amanda; Moore, Clinton; Toste, Jessica; Simmons, Leslie – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2021
Reading comprehension tests vary in format and characteristics, which may influence the extent to which component skills are involved in test performance. With students in Grades 6 to 8 with reading difficulties, dominance analyses examined the differential importance of component reading and language skills (word- and text-reading fluency,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Standardized Tests, Reading Difficulties
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H. Lee Swanson; Rollanda O'Connor – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2009
The authors investigated whether practice in reading fluency had a causal influence on the relationship between working memory (WM) and text comprehension for 155 students in Grades 2 and 4 who were poor or average readers. Dysfluent readers were randomly assigned to repeated reading or continuous reading practice conditions and compared with…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Short Term Memory, Grade 2