TY - CHAP

T1 - Problems in text comprehension

T2 - current perspectives and recent research

AU - Oakhill, Jane

AU - Cain, Kate

PY - 1999

Y1 - 1999

N2 - This chapter begins with an outline of the processes needed for effective text understanding in skilled readers, and the levels at which problems in text comprehension might arise. This overview provides some relevant background for later discussion of how children’s comprehension can fail. We consider, in particular, the difficulties that children can have with reading, even when they are competent at single-word recognition. Although single word reading and comprehension skill are, in general, highly correlated, a substantial minority of children develop the former but not the latter skill.

AB - This chapter begins with an outline of the processes needed for effective text understanding in skilled readers, and the levels at which problems in text comprehension might arise. This overview provides some relevant background for later discussion of how children’s comprehension can fail. We consider, in particular, the difficulties that children can have with reading, even when they are competent at single-word recognition. Although single word reading and comprehension skill are, in general, highly correlated, a substantial minority of children develop the former but not the latter skill.

U2 - 10.1007/978-94-017-2772-3_11

DO - 10.1007/978-94-017-2772-3_11

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9780792355571

SN - 9789048151646

T3 - Neuropsychology and Cognition

SP - 177

EP - 192

BT - Problems and interventions in literacy development

A2 - Reitsma, Pieter

A2 - Verhoeven, Ludo

PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers

CY - Dordrecht

ER -