Preschool pathways to reading comprehension: A systematic meta-analytic review

HN Hjetland, EI Brinchmann, R Scherer… - Educational Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Unveiling the mysteries of dyslexia—Lessons learned from the prospective Jyväskylä longitudinal study of dyslexia

K Lohvansuu, M Torppa, T Ahonen, K Eklund… - Brain sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews the observations of the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia (JLD).
The JLD is a prospective family risk study in which the development of children with familial …

Pathways to reading comprehension: A longitudinal study from 4 to 9 years of age.

HN Hjetland, A Lervåg, SAH Lyster… - Journal of …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term effects of the home literacy environment on reading development: Familial risk for dyslexia as a moderator

M Torppa, K Vasalampi, K Eklund, P Niemi - Journal of experimental child …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aimed to gain better understanding of the associations between literacy activities
at home and long-term language and literacy development. We extended the home literacy …

Home literacy activities and children's reading skills, independent reading, and interest in literacy activities from kindergarten to grade 2

G Silinskas, M Sénéchal, M Torppa… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
According to the Home Literacy Model (,), young children can be exposed to two distinct
types of literacy activities at home. First, meaning-related literacy activities are those where …

How are practice and performance related? Development of reading from age 5 to 15

E van Bergen, K Vasalampi… - Reading Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Does reading a lot lead to better reading skills, or does reading a lot follow from high initial
reading skills? The authors present a longitudinal study of how much children choose to …

A cross-linguistic, longitudinal study of the foundations of decoding and reading comprehension ability

M Caravolas, A Lervåg, M Mikulajova… - Scientific Studies of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The present study investigated the moderating role of orthographic consistency on the
development of reading comprehension in four language groups (English, n= 179; Spanish …

The simple view of reading across development: Prediction of grade 3 reading comprehension from prekindergarten skills

Language and Reading Research … - Remedial and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
We assessed the simple view of reading as a framework for Grade 3 reading
comprehension in two ways. We first confirmed that a structural equation model in which …

Reading comprehension difficulty is often distinct from difficulty in reading fluency and accompanied with problems in motivation and school well-being

M Torppa, K Vasalampi, K Eklund… - Educational …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examined if difficulty in reading comprehension (PISA) is distinct from difficulty in
reading fluency and if the distinct types of reading difficulties are differently associated with …

Language skills, and not executive functions, predict the development of reading comprehension of early readers: Evidence from an orthographically transparent …

DD Dolean, A Lervåg, L Visu-Petra… - Reading and Writing, 2021 - Springer
The simple view of reading proposes that the development of reading comprehension in
early elementary school is best predicted by children's fluent decoding and oral language …