The Acquisition of Reading Comprehension Skill
By Charles A. Perfetti, N. Landi, Jane Oakhill. 2008
982 citations recorded by the source corpus.
How do people acquire skill at comprehending what they read? That is the simple question to which we shall try to make a tentative answer. To begin, we have to acknowledge some complexities about the concept of reading comprehension and what it means to develop it.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Understanding Variability in Reading Comprehension in Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorders: Interactions With Language Status and Decoding Skill (2011, background): “Skilled comprehenders have understanding as their ultimate goal and adopt strategies to facilitate comprehension (Perfetti et al., 2005).”
- How morphology impacts reading and spelling: advancing the role of morphology in models of literacy development (2020, methodology): “Elsewhere in the Reading Systems Framework, morphology is included in the lexicon (Lexical Representations in Figure 1); this implicates another indirect morphological pathway, beginning in the linguistic systems going to the lexicon which, in turn, contributes to reading comprehension.”
- The Percentage of Words Known in a Text and Reading Comprehension. (2011, background): “Moreover, inferencing skills, in the context of reading academic texts, are an important predictor of reading abilities (Oakhill & Cain, 2007; Perfetti et al., 2005).”
- Fluency in reading—Thirty-five years later (2010, background): “Pichette (2005) examined 55 French-speaking university ESL students in Canada.”