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Lee, Sungyoon; Woltering, Steven; Prickett, Christopher; Shi, Qinxin; Sun, Huilin; Thompson, Julie L. – Reading Psychology, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between elementary students' reading skills and their online reading (i.e., real-time reading) behaviors during silent sentence processing. Thirty-five students participated in this study and their eye movements were recorded during sentence reading tasks. The effects of students'…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Silent Reading, Eye Movements, Reading Skills
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Christ, Tanya; Wang, X. Christine; Chiu, Ming Ming – Reading Psychology, 2017
This study explores how child and text clues were related to 31 kindergarteners' word-meaning derivation outcomes for 372 words presented in books read aloud to children. Data were analyzed using a multilevel, cross-classification, ordered logit model. Children showed no word-meaning derivation 40% of the time, indicating a need for instruction.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Young Children, Reading Aloud to Others, Kindergarten
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Kaefer, Tanya; Neuman, Susan B.; Pinkham, Ashley M. – Reading Psychology, 2015
The goal of the current study is to explore the influence of knowledge on socioeconomic discrepancies in word learning and comprehension. After establishing socioeconomic differences in background knowledge (Study 1), the authors presented children with a storybook that incorporates this knowledge (Study 2). Results indicated that middle-income…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning