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Can Inferencing Be Trained in Preschoolers Using Shared Book-Reading? A Randomised Controlled Trial of Parents' Inference-Eliciting Questions on Oral Inferencing Ability
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Davies, Catherine; McGillion, Michelle; Rowland, Caroline; Matthews, Danielle – Journal of Child Language, 2020
The ability to make inferences is essential for effective language comprehension. While inferencing training benefits reading comprehension in school-aged children (see Elleman, 2017, for a review), we do not yet know whether it is beneficial to support the development of these skills prior to school entry. In a pre-registered randomised…
Descriptors: Inferences, Training, Preschool Children, Oral Reading