Children's reading comprehension and assessment

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The Role of Reader Characteristics in Processing and Learning From Informational Text (2009, background): “A continuing challenge for researchers has been to develop assessments and tasks that can target these different levels of mental representation (Graesser et al., 1997; Kintsch & Kintsch, 2005).”
The Precursors of Reading Ability in Young Readers: Evidence From a Four-Year Longitudinal Study (2012, background): “Oral language skills such as these provide an opportunity to develop skills important for text comprehension in prereaders and young readers, who lack the word recognition skills to process complex written text (for further discussion, see Kendeou et al, 2005 ; van den Broek et al, 2005 ; van den”
Can the Simple View Deal with the Complexities of Reading (2008, background): “Although there is nothing inherently invalid in this practice, it is clear that such tasks do not fully capture what many consider RC to be (Paris and Stahl, 2005).”
How Reading Motivation and Engagement Enable Reading Achievement: Policy Implications (2020, background): “Background knowledge is one of the strongest predictors of reading comprehension (Cromley & Azevedo, 2007); the more one knows about a topic, the easier it is to connect new information from reading and increase one’s overall understanding of it (Kintsch & Kintsch, 2005).”