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The Relationship among Oral Language, Decoding Skills, and Reading Comprehension in Children with Autism
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Cronin, Kathleen A. – Exceptionality, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among oral language, decoding, and reading comprehension for children with autism. Participants included 13 English-speaking children with a diagnosis of high-functioning autism (IQ > 70) who were included in a typical classroom, and who had parents who spoke English. Parts of the…
Descriptors: Autism, Oral Language, Decoding (Reading), Reading Comprehension
Review of Research: Neuroscience and Reading--A Review for Reading Education Researchers
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Hruby, George G.; Goswami, Usha – Reading Research Quarterly, 2011
In this review, we lay the groundwork for an interdisciplinary conversation between literacy education research and relevant neuroscience research. We review recent neuroscience research on correlates of proposed cognitive subprocesses in text decoding and reading comprehension and analyze some of the methodological and conceptual challenges of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Reading, Neurological Organization, Neuropsychology
Form and Structure of Chinese Characters and Children's Understanding of Science
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Cheng, May May Hung – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2011
The written representation in Chinese can be considered as a pictorial or a symbolic representation which is very different from English where the pronunciation is related to how the word is spelt. Students face challenges of a very different nature when science is learnt in Chinese compared with English. In Hong Kong, students are making…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Chinese, Elementary School Students
Intensive Word Study and Repeated Reading Improves Reading Skills for Two Students with Learning Disabilities
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Staudt, Deborah Hill – Reading Teacher, 2009
Two struggling fourth-grade readers with learning disabilities who have severe deficits in word recognition, comprehension, and reading fluency improve their reading skills using a method that combines intensive word study with the timed repeated reading of poetry. The direct instruction included semantics, morphology, orthography, and…
Descriptors: Spelling, Reading Fluency, Semantics, Learning Disabilities
Using Explicit Instruction to Promote Vocabulary Learning for Struggling Readers
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Taylor, D. Bruce; Mraz, Maryann; Nichols, William D.; Rickelman, Robert J.; Wood, Karen D. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2009
Research supports the need for active vocabulary learning across grade levels and subject areas to help increase readers' comprehension of diverse texts that they encounter. Given the increasing emphasis on decoding and reading comprehension, the relative importance of vocabulary instruction has been diminished in recent years. The authors argue…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction
Semantic and Phonological Skills in Predicting Reading Development: From 3-16 Years of Age
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Frost, Jorgen; Madsbjerg, Sigrid; Niedersoe, Jan; Olofsson, Ake; Sorensen, Peer Moller – Dyslexia, 2005
The present longitudinal study investigated the relationship between pre-school semantic skills (vocabulary, comprehension and sentence construction), phonological awareness and later word decoding and reading comprehension skills. More than 200 Danish children were followed from a speech therapist screening at the age of three, through a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Reading Tests