Effects of exposure to literary Arabic on reading comprehension in a diglossic situation

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Linguistic distance and initial reading acquisition: The case of Arabic diglossia (2003, background): “Abu-Rabia (2000) compared the reading comprehension performance of first and second grade children, who had been experimentally exposed to literary Arabic throughout their preschool period, with the reading performance of a parallel control group.”
Correlates of Reading Fluency in Arabic: Diglossic and Orthographic Factors (2005, background): “Abu-Rabia (2000) and Feitelson, Goldstein, Iraqi, and Share (1993) showed that early oral exposure to MSA, through story telling, was associated with gains in literary language development and reading comprehension.”
Word recognition and basic cognitive processes among reading-disabled and normal readers in Arabic (2003, background): “First-grade children when first introduced to literary Arabic undoubtedly find it almost a new language for writing, reading, and speaking (Abu-Rabia, 2000a; Ayari, 1996).”