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Escobar, José-Pablo; Rosas Díaz, Ricardo – Reading Psychology, 2023
This research aims to evaluate the predicting role of executive functions, specially inhibition and flexibility, in reading comprehension. Participants were evaluated with inhibition and flexibility measures in first- grade, and later in third- grade their reading comprehension, oral and silent reading fluency, as well as their decoding skills…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Inhibition, Cognitive Processes, Reading Comprehension
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Espinoza, Victoria; Santa Cruz, Catalina; Rosas, Ricardo – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
There is resounding evidence of the existence of direct precursors of written language, most specifically phonological awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, and oral comprehension. The initial differences identified in the development of written language precursors are directly related to subsequent students' academic trajectories.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Written Language, Language Acquisition, Socioeconomic Status
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Martínez, Camila; Maurits, Natasha; Maassen, Ben – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
GraphoGame is a computer-based game that trains grapheme-to-phoneme associations and has been shown to benefit reading acquisition in different languages and countries. In transparent languages, such as Spanish, learning grapheme-to-phoneme associations is of great importance when learning to read, and GraphoGame can help children at risk of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Identification, Reading Difficulties, Spanish Speaking
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Quezada, Natalia Ferrada – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2021
Readers' theatre is a teaching strategy that consists of the interpretative reading of theatrical texts in which readers use their voices to give life to the characters. This strategy promotes the development of various skills related to fluency, among which there is prosody. This research aimed to check the efficacy of a reader's theatre program…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Theater Arts, Reading Instruction
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Bizama Muñoz, Marcela; Saldaño Silva, Darling; Rodríguez Rodríguez, Cristina – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2019
Introduction: Existing studies of the variables that can impact reading comprehension at intermediate levels of Primary Education are not entirely conclusive. The present study analyzes the contribution to reading comprehension made by domain-general skills, such as fluid intelligence (Gf) and working memory (WM), and domain-specific skills, such…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Children
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Baker, Doris Luft; Azcarrága, Maribel Granada; Correa, María Pilar Pomes; Lepe-Martinez, Nancy; Smolkowski, Keith – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
This study explores the effects of a Spanish vocabulary intervention on the literacy outcomes of students at risk for vocabulary difficulties in Chile. We screened 2nd-grade students (N = 84) with a standardized Spanish vocabulary measure. We then randomly assigned students who scored below the 40th percentile (n = 30) to an intervention or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Vocabulary Development, Intervention