Psychology 3140F/G Lecture 6: class6reading

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3140F/G
• Professor: Jerad

Document Summary

There is variability in the ease with which children learn to read. If we understand what early skills facilitate learning to read, we could help kindergarten children develop those skills so that they would have an easier time learning to read. If we could predict which children are likely to have difficulty learning to read, we could provide intensive instruction from the start of grade 1 so they would be more likely to be successful. Correlation b2w amount of time spent reading to child in k grade 1 reading ability was 0. 21. Seems low given beliefs about value of reading. Better oral language skills, which will help with reading comprehension later on. Why isnt being read to more strongly related to reading ability in grade. Examined the relationship b2w home literacy experiences and subsequent reading and language skills. Distinguished b2w children"s exposure to storybook reading, parent teaching about reading and writing.