There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

This article reviews 95 publications (based on 21 independent samples) that have examined
children at family risk of reading disorders. We report that children at family risk of dyslexia …

Theories of reading comprehension have widely predicted a role for syntactic skills, or the
ability to understand and manipulate the structure of a sentence. Yet, these theories are …

Previous research suggests that (a) individual differences in reading and language
development are stable across childhood,(b) reading and vocabulary are intertwined, and …

The two major determinants of reading comprehension are language comprehension and
decoding, but prior studies of the development of reading comprehension from an early age …

The ultimate aim of reading is not the process but to understand what we read and
comprehension can take place at many different levels. There has been an increasing …

The authors report a systematic meta-analytic review of the relationships among 3 of the
most widely studied measures of children's phonological skills (phonemic awareness, rime …

On average, children from low socioeconomic status (SES) homes and children from homes
in which a language other than English is spoken have language development trajectories …

Can the science of reading contribute to improving educational practices, allowing more
students to become skilled readers? Much has been learned about the behavioral and brain …

The ability to construct meaning from texts is the core of reading. We report a meta-analysis
and a systematic review of 64 longitudinal studies tracing the development of reading …