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Amanda C. Miller; Irene Adjei; Hannah Christensen – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Mind wandering occurs when a reader's thoughts are unrelated to the text's ideas. We examined the relation between mind wandering and readers' memory for text. More specifically, we assessed whether mind wandering inhibits the reader's development of the situation model and thus their ability to identify and recall the text's most central ideas.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Recall (Psychology), Adults, Intelligence Tests
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Su-Zhen Zhang; Tomohiro Inoue; George K. Georgiou – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
We examined the relation between home literacy environment (HLE), parents' reading skills, and children's emergent literacy skills (pinyin letter knowledge, phonological awareness, and vocabulary) and reading (word reading and reading comprehension) in a sample of 168 Chinese children (M[subscript age] = 74.26 months) followed from kindergarten to…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Parents, Reading Skills, Emergent Literacy
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Sylvia Liu; Barry Lee Reynolds; Nathan Thomas; Ali Soyoof – SAGE Open, 2024
This review was conducted to explore the use of digital technologies with young children in early childhood language and literacy education. It centers on peer-reviewed empirical journal articles published during the past two decades. An initial sample of refereed journal articles (N = 631) was compiled from systematically searching the Web of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Skill Development, Young Children, Language Skills
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Sascha Couvee; Loes Wauters; Harry Knoors; Ludo Verhoeven; Eliane Segers – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025
We investigated relations between kindergarten precursors and second-grade reading skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children, and aimed to identify subgroups based on reading skills, in order to explore early signs of later reading delays. DHH children (n = 23, M[subscript age] kindergarten = 6.25) participated from kindergarten-second…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 2, Reading Skills, Deafness
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Ehm, Jan-Henning; Schmitterer, Alexandra M. A.; Nagler, Telse; Lervåg, Arne – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: The transition to school and the first years of elementary school education are very sensitive phases for reading development. Reading researchers have established key precursors and developmental steps in these phases. However, how these components interact and affect growth is not well understood yet. The current study from Germany…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Reading Skills
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Bergman Deitcher, Deborah; Aram, Dorit; Besser-Biron, Shira – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Precocious readers (PRs) are children who read and comprehend fluently in their native language, without receiving formal instruction. This study examined Hebrew-speaking PRs in comparison with a group of age-matched peers and a group of reading-level-matched peers. By examining Hebrew, which is a transparent orthography when it has…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Gifted
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Makhoul, Bahaa' Afiff – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2021
The current study followed literacy skills development amongst 79 Arabic native speaking pupils from kindergarten to fourth grade. Based on reading comprehension attainments in fourth grade, two groups of skilled and poor readers were identified. Poor readers showed significantly lower performance on measures of phonological and morphological…
Descriptors: Arabic, Native Speakers, Grade 4, Reading Comprehension
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Bailey, Benjamin; Arciuli, Joanne – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Much of what is known about autism and literacy instruction is derived from studies including monolingual English-speaking children. Yet, less than one-fifth of the world's population are English speakers. This review examines the research on literacy instruction for children with autism learning to read and write in languages other than English.…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Reading Instruction
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McTigue, Erin M.; Schwippert, Knut; Uppstad, Per Henning; Lundetrae, Kjersti; Solheim, Oddny Judith – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Research consistently documents that girls outperform boys in literacy achievement, yet, when considering the starting point--early literacy--we do not have consensus on the origin, meaningful nature, or persistence of such differences. In this two-part study analyzing 5,816 Norwegian students (48.1% girls, average age of 6.1 years), we first…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Males, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries
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Manu, Mari; Torppa, Minna; Eklund, Kenneth; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Niemi, Pekka – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
One of the aims for compulsory education is to diminish or alleviate differences in children's skills existing prior to school entry. However, a growing gender gap in reading development has increasingly been documented. Regrettably, there is scant evidence on whether differences between genders (favouring girls) have their roots in pre-reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Prereading Experience
Cross, Carmelita – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Reading fluency has been acknowledged as a key component in the process of learning to read. As students enter kindergarten, many of them do not have the early or emergent literacy skills they need in order to become fluent readers. Kindergarten students in a Midwest suburban elementary school were studied focusing on their development of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Skills, Kindergarten, Program Effectiveness
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van der Kleij, Sanne W.; Burgess, Adrian P.; Ricketts, Jessie; Shapiro, Laura R. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
Purpose: We investigated the roles of leisure reading and word reading ability in vocabulary and reading comprehension development in 598 adolescents at ages 10, 11, and 12 (285 girls, 313 boys). Method: Structural equation modeling was used to test whether word reading was associated with vocabulary and reading comprehension: a) directly; b)…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Word Recognition
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Spaull, Nicholas; Pretorius, Elizabeth; Mohohlwane, Nompumelelo – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2020
Background: Reading development in agglutinating African languages is a relatively underresearched area. While numerous studies highlight the low comprehension levels among learners reading in African languages in South Africa, little has been done to probe beneath this 'comprehension iceberg' in terms of decoding skills. Aim: As a tentative step…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, African Languages, Reading Fluency, Foreign Countries
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Eviatar, Zohar; Ibrahim, Raphiq; Karelitz, Tzur M.; Simon, Anat Ben – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
We tested the effects of orthography on text reading by comparing reading measures in Arabic and Hebrew-speaking adults. The languages are typologically very similar, but use different orthographies. We measured naming speed of single letters, words and nonwords, and visual processing. Arabic-speakers also performed some of the tasks in Hebrew. We…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Skills, Adults, Visual Perception
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Papadopoulos, Timothy C.; Spanoudis, George; Ktisti, Christiana; Fella, Argyro – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
We investigated the role of linguistic and cognitive processes in reading precocity from kindergarten to grade 2. A sample of 33 precocious readers was identified that did not differ on age, gender, and parental education to a control group of 259 typical readers. The effects of verbal ability were also controlled. All children were administered a…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Cognitive Processes, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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