This study investigated the contribution of linguistic comprehension to the decoding skills of struggling readers. Participants were 36 children aged between eight and 12 years, all below average in decoding but differing in linguistic comprehension. The children read passages from the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability and their first 25 miscues…

Suggests the need for a model of reading in which the use of text data and prior knowledge structures in story understanding varies according to the complexity of the comprehension task, the familiarity of the text, and the level of understanding required of the reader. (HOD)

Reports two experiments analyzing the effects of different types of word misidentification on children's understanding of connected discourse. Results vary depending upon the way comprehension is assessed. (AA)

Investigates context effects on children's reading accuracy when reading words in a story context and from a word list. Notes that although many children read words in context which they could not read from lists, this result did not apply to good readers. (MM)

To examine the effect on comprehension of mistakes made while reading, a three-experiment study was conducted. A secondary aim was to determine whether the unskilled reader would make hypotheses about what words in the text should be. In the first test, 80 nine-year-old students with average or above average reading abilities read narrative…