Preparing for reading comprehension: Fostering text comprehension skills in preschool and early elementary school children

To understand what they read or hear, children and adults must create a coherent mental representation of presented information. Recent research suggests that the ability to do so starts to develop early –well before reading age- and that early individual differences are predictive of later reading-...

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Main Authors: Paul van den BROEK, Panayiota KENDEOU, Sandra LOUSBERG, Gootje VISSER
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kura Publishing 2011-11-01
Series:International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
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Online Access:http://www.iejee.com/4_1_2011/14_IEJEE_4_1_vandenBroek_et_al.pdf