ERIC Number: EJ1191983
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0741-9325
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Examining the Simple View of Reading with Elementary School Children: Still Simple after All These Years
Lonigan, Christopher J.; Burgess, Stephen R.; Schatschneider, Christopher
Remedial and Special Education, v39 n5 p260-273 Sep-Oct 2018
The simple view of reading (SVR) proposes that performance in reading comprehension is the result of decoding and linguistic comprehension, and that each component is necessary but not sufficient for reading comprehension. In this study, the joint and unique predictive influences of decoding and linguistic comprehension for reading comprehension were examined with a group of 757 children in Grades 3 through 5. Children completed multiple measures of each construct, and latent variables were used in all analyses. Overall, the results of our study indicate that (a) the two constructs included in the SVR account for almost all of the variance in reading comprehension, (b) there are developmental trends in the relative importance of the two components, and (c) the two components share substantial predictive variance, which may complicate efforts to substantially improve children's reading comprehension because the overlap may reflect stable individual differences in general cognitive or linguistic abilities.
Descriptors: Reading, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Predictor Variables, Linguistics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 3; Primary Education; Early Childhood Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Grade 5; Middle Schools
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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Identifiers - Location: Florida
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305F100027