Vocabulary Is Important for Some, but Not All Reading Skills

By J. Ricketts, Kate Nation, Dorothy V. M. Bishop. 2007

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Statistics and Probability

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Investigating gender differences in reading (2010, unknown): “1998 ; Dally 2006 ) and verbal ability (Nation and Snowling 2004 ; Ouellette 2006 ; Ricketts, Nation, and Bishop 2007 ) for reading comprehension.”
The Role of Children's Phonological and Semantic Knowledge in Learning to Read Words (2012, background): “It is generally assumed that any role of semantics in children's reading interacts with consistency (eg, Juel, 1980 ; Nation & Cocksey, 2009 ; Ricketts, Nation, & Bishop, 2007 ).”
Paucity and Disparity in Kindergarten Oral Vocabulary Instruction (2014, result): “…connection between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension (Stahl & Fairbanks, 1986) is supported by evidence from both concurrent (e.g., Ricketts et al., 2007) and longitudinal studies (e.g., National Institute of Child Health and Development Early Child Care Research Network, 2005;…”
Children’s oral narrative and reading skills in the first 3 years of reading instruction (2010, background): “At these older ages, sometimes this link is present only for reading comprehension and not for reading accuracy or fluency ( Ricketts, Nation, & Bishop, 2007 ; S ene ´chal, 2006; Storch & Whitehurst, 2002), but in other studies, oral language was related to both word recognition and reading comprehe”
A not-so-simple view of reading: how oral vocabulary and visual-word recognition complicate the story (2010, background): “Further, recent research has highlighted the importance of oral vocabulary in reading comprehension (Biemiller & Boote, 2006; Ouellette, 2006; Ricketts, Nation, & Bishop, 2007 ), and it is not entirely clear whether the components defined within the simple view fully account for the unique contribu”
How Reading Books Fosters Language Development around the World (2012, result): “This finding and the results of work by other researchers [13, 14] make clear that semantic knowledge makes an important contribution to reading comprehension and that later reading failures often can be attributed to weakness in language ability [15].”