Vocabulary is important for some, but not all reading skills

Ricketts, J., Nation, K. and Bishop, D. V. (2007) Vocabulary is important for some, but not all reading skills. Scientific Studies of Reading, 11 (3). pp. 235-257. ISSN 1088-8438 doi: 10.1080/10888430701344306

Abstract/Summary

Although there is evidence for a close link between the development of oral vocabulary and reading comprehension, less clear is whether oral vocabulary skills relate to the development of word-level reading skills. This study investigated vocabulary and literacy in 81 children aged 8 to 10 years. In regression analyses, vocabulary accounted for unique variance in exception word reading and reading comprehension, but not text reading accuracy, decoding, or regular word reading. Consistent with these data, children with poor reading comprehension exhibited oral vocabulary weaknesses and read fewer exception words correctly. These findings demonstrate that oral vocabulary is associated with some, but not all, reading skills. Results are discussed in terms of current models of reading development.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/27869
Identification Number/DOI	10.1080/10888430701344306
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Institute of Education No Reading authors. Back catalogue items
Uncontrolled Keywords	Reading Vocabulary Reading comprehension Word recognition
Publisher	Routledge
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