Topic
Reading research, explained
8 open-access reading studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Do memory and attention matter more for listening or reading?
Young children's working memory and attention mattered somewhat more for understanding spoken stories than written ones, and they helped reading comprehension mainly by supporting word reading and listening skills.
- Does teaching preschoolers word parts help reading years later?
Children taught to notice word parts (prefixes, suffixes, compounds) in preschool understood texts better six years later than untrained children.
- Why do bilingual kids lag in reading comprehension?
Bilingual children read words as fast as monolinguals but understand texts less well, mainly because their vocabulary in the school language is smaller, and the same skills drive comprehension in both groups.
- Does sounding out words still matter once kids read fluently?
Phonological awareness predicted several reading skills in struggling readers but predicted none of them in children who already read fluently.
- Which spoken-language skills help poor kids start reading?
In children just starting to read, spoken-language skills like vocabulary and word-structure knowledge were linked to reading only indirectly, through listening comprehension and sound awareness.
- Which kinds of word knowledge help children understand what they read?
Knowing more words, knowing them more deeply, and having strongly linked word meanings each separately helped fourth graders understand texts, with written vocabulary size mattering most.
- Remote learning and university reading difficulties
University students with formal or self-reported reading difficulties reported more remote-learning stress and were more likely than peers to fail at least one exam in the first COVID remote semester.
- How do teens judge if online health articles are trustworthy?
High school students can easily identify which online health texts are untrustworthy, but they struggle to explain the reasons behind their judgments.