The role of background knowledge in reading comprehension: A critical review

R Smith, P Snow, T Serry, L Hammond - Reading Psychology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Reading from paper compared to screens: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

V Clinton - Journal of research in reading, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Given the increasing popularity of reading from screens, it is not surprising that
numerous studies have been conducted comparing reading from paper and electronic …

A meta-analysis on the relation between reading and working memory.

P Peng, M Barnes, CC Wang, W Wang, S Li… - Psychological …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between reading and working
memory (WM) in the context of 3 major theories: the domain-specificity theory (debate) of …

[HTML][HTML] La comprensión lectora de escolares de educación básica

JL Gallego Ortega, S Figueroa Sepúlveda… - Literatura y …, 2019 - SciELO Chile
El principal objetivo de esta investigación fue conocer el nivel de comprensión lectora de
una muestra de estudiantes chilenos, escolarizados en un centro urbano subvencionado …

Memory and comprehension of narrative versus expository texts: A meta-analysis

RA Mar, J Li, ATP Nguyen, CP Ta - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2021 - Springer
We acquire a lot of information about the world through texts, which can be categorized at
the broadest level into two primary genres: narratives and exposition. Stories and essays …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Understanding and teaching reading comprehension: A handbook

J Oakhill, K Cain, C Elbro - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
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 multidimensional knowledge in text comprehension framework

KS McCarthy, DS McNamara - Educational Psychologist, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Prior knowledge is one of the strongest contributors to comprehension, but there is little
specificity about different aspects of prior knowledge and how they impact comprehension …

Decoding and reading comprehension: A meta-analysis to identify which reader and assessment characteristics influence the strength of the relationship in English

JR García, K Cain - Review of educational research, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The twofold purpose of this meta-analysis was to determine the relative importance of
decoding skills to reading comprehension in reading development and to identify which …

Academic skills problems

ES Shapiro, MA Keller - Clinician's Handbook of Child Behavioral …, 2006 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter reveals a methodology of assessing basic academic skills
focused on problem solving that has been designed to evaluate a student's skills and …

A large-scaled corpus for assessing text readability

S Crossley, A Heintz, JS Choi, J Batchelor… - Behavior Research …, 2023 - Springer
This paper introduces the CommonLit Ease of Readability (CLEAR) corpus, which provides
unique readability scores for~ 5000 text excerpts along with information about the excerpt's …