Macarena Silva|Kate Cain
The relations between lower and higher level comprehension skills and their role in prediction of early reading comprehension.
study 4 6yearolds two aims first determine lowerlevel comprehension skills receptive vocabulary grammar verbal memory support early higherlevel comprehension skills inference literal story comprehension second establish predictive power skills subsequent reading comprehension eightytwo children completed assessments nonverbal ability receptive vocabulary grammar verbal shortterm memory inferential literal comprehension picture book narrative vocabulary unique predictor concurrent narrative comprehension longitudinally inference skills literal comprehension grammar made independent contributions reading comprehension one year later influence vocabulary reading comprehension mediated inference literal comprehension results show inference skills critical construction text representations earliest stages reading comprehension development