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Cain, Kate; Oakhill, Jane – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
The authors report data from a longitudinal study of the reading development of children who were assessed in the years of their 8th, 11th, 14th, and 16th birthdays. They examine the evidence for Matthew effects in reading and vocabulary between ages 8 and 11 in groups of children identified with good and poor reading comprehension at 8 years.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Skills, Vocabulary Development, Longitudinal Studies
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Cain, Kate; Oakhill, Jane; Bryant, Peter – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2000
Considers how the reading-level match design has become a widely-used tool for investigating the possible direction of the relation between particular skills and word reading ability: cause or consequence. Outlines an analogous method for identifying candidate causes of reading comprehension failure, the "comprehension-age match design."…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Influences, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties