ERIC Number: EJ1449527
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Nov
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0938-8982
EISSN: EISSN-1540-5826
Predictors of Multiple-Document Comprehension among Third-Grade Children with Reading Difficulties and Disabilities
Daniel R. Espinas; Jeanne Wanzek
Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, v39 n4 p189-201 2024
Facility with learning from multiple text documents is critical for college and career readiness. However, children with reading difficulties and disabilities have been largely excluded from research on multiple document comprehension. Accordingly, little is known about how children with reading difficulties and disabilities perform on multiple-document tasks, the factors that predict their performance, and how best to foster their development of this skill. To begin to fill these gaps, we examined concurrent predictors of one dimension of multiple-document comprehension, intertextual integration (ie, the ability to integrate information presented across two or more text documents), among third-grade children with reading difficulties and disabilities (N = 70). Correlational analyses revealed that children's intertextual integration performance was significantly and positively associated with single-document comprehension (SDC) but not with word-level reading (WLR) or passage-reading fluency (PRF). Multiple-regression analyses indicated that SDC significantly predicted intertextual integration but that WLR and PRF did not.
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Reading Difficulties, Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Achievement Tests, Reading Tests, Emergent Literacy, Reading Fluency
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 3; Primary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) (ED); Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Tennessee; Texas
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement; Test of Word Reading Efficiency; Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS); Gates MacGinitie Reading Tests
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: H325D180086; R324A210021