A critical review was conducted to determine the influence background knowledge has on
the reading comprehension of primary school-aged children. We identified twenty-three …

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 …

Reading comprehension is one of the most complex cognitive activities in which humans
engage, making it difficult to teach, measure, and research. Despite decades of research in …

We reintroduce a wide-angle view of reading comprehension, the Reading Systems
Framework, which places word knowledge in the center of the picture, taking into account …

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment
tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix …

Pathways of relations of language, cognitive, and literacy skills (ie, working memory,
vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, inference, comprehension monitoring, word reading …

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 present meta‐analysis examined the overall average correlation (weighted for sample
size and corrected for measurement error) between passage‐level second language (L2) …

Practical, effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' lives
Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in …

A defining feature of language lies in its capacity to represent meaning across oral and
written forms. Morphemes, the smallest units of meaning in a language, are the fundamental …