Reading Comprehension Profile of Czech Garden Variety Poor Readers

Improving the Reading Comprehension Skills of Poor Readers

Although much has been written about reading comprehension in the last twenty years, theories defining the comprehension process, and strategies on how to teach it still pique the interest of educators. This article addresses the negative effects of poor decoding on reading comprehension, and reviews various strategies that have been used with poor readers to successfully compensate for the pro...

Story Comprehension and Recall of Poor Readers

A study was conducted to identify poor readers and to characterize weaknesses in their knowledge and use of story structure in comprehension and recall. Subjects were 80 year-3 children in Brisbane, Queensland Australia, 20 good readers and 60 poor readers. The poor readers were then divided into relatively homogeneous subgroups, using measures of language-reading comprehension, according to a ...

Imitated Prosodic Fluency Predicts Reading Comprehension Ability in Good and Poor High School Readers

Researchers have established a relationship between beginning readers' silent comprehension ability and their prosodic fluency, such that readers who read aloud with appropriate prosody tend to have higher scores on silent reading comprehension assessments. The current study was designed to investigate this relationship in two groups of high school readers: Specifically Poor Comprehenders (SPCs...

Brain activation during sentence comprehension among good and poor readers.

This study sought to increase current understanding of the neuropsychological basis of poor reading ability by using fMRI to examine brain activation during a visual sentence comprehension task among good and poor readers in the third (n = 32) and fifth (n = 35) grades. Reading ability, age, and the combination of both factors made unique contributions to cortical activation. The main finding w...

Matthew Effects, Reading Comprehension, and Vocabulary 1 Running Head: Matthew Effects, Reading Comprehension, and Vocabulary Matthew Effects in Young Readers: Reading Comprehension and Reading Experience Aid Vocabulary Development