Focused instruction on implicature may be needed to facilitate the development of pragmatic comprehension ability.
The reduction of items in each test according to the Rasch model criteria enabled the development of reading comprehension tests that are time saving for teachers and researchers, without compromising the assessment of the latent trait.
The results suggest that in deaf children, vocabulary knowledge and nonverbal cognitive processes such as selective attention, visuo-spatial memory, abstract reasoning and sequential processing may be especially relevant for the development of reading comprehension.
However further development of these comprehension tools is needed to make them more effective for use in clinical practice.
Although Piagetian theory provides a framework to explore the development of probability comprehension [ 36] an analysis of the evidence and subsequent research indicates this theory may be too simplistic [ 37].
The significance of discourse skills for Chinese reading comprehension of typically developing children at different developmental stages may be related to the high relevance of children's story or narrative understanding to their development of reading comprehension (Perfetti, Landi, & Oakhill 2005).
The name of the program alludes to the catalytic effect its meant to have on the development of kids' language comprehension skills, but, at least at my school, it had a second, more detrimental meaning: We were supposed to read as quickly as possible.
Within a pre-, post-, and retention-test design with 20 classes, comprising of 593 fifth-graders (11 years), development of strategy knowledge, reading comprehension, school-related self-efficacy, and motivational orientation towards learning goals were assessed.
