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Testing Mechanisms Underlying Children's Reading Development: The Power of Learning Lexical Representations
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S. Hélène Deacon; Catherine Mimeau; Kyle Levesque; Jessie Ricketts – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Prominent theories of reading development have separately emphasized the relevance of children's skill in learning (Share, 2008) and lexical representations (Perfetti & Hart, 2002). Integrating these ideas, we examined whether skill in learning lexical representations is a mechanism that might explain children's reading development. To do so…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Processes, Reading Tests, Story Reading
Early Vocabulary Growth: Relation to Language Input and Gender.
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Huttenlocher, Janellen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Examined the role of exposure to speech in children's vocabulary growth. Characterized vocabulary growth rates for children from 14 to 26 months of age. Found a relation between individual differences in vocabulary acquisition and variations in the amount of a mother's speech to her children. (BC)
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Individual Differences, Infants, Language Acquisition
Early Reading Acquisition and Its Relation to Reading Experience and Ability 10 Years Later.
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Cunningham, Anne E.; Stanovich, Keith E. – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Studied reading comprehension, vocabulary, general knowledge, and print exposure of 11th graders who completed reading battery 10 years earlier. Found that first-grade reading ability predicted all 11th-grade outcomes--even when cognitive ability was partialed out--and was linked to print exposure, even after 11th-grade reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Ability, Cultural Literacy, Elementary School Students