EDST2003 Lecture 5: 03 5
• Variability occurs across all 3 components of reading comprehension & thus the overall
contexts.
o Readers
▪ Sociocultural influences
▪ Group differences (follow on from sociocultural)
▪ Inter-individual influences (variation in comprehension abilities)
▪ Intra-individual influences (diversity in reading competencies and interests)
o Text
▪ Form
▪ Content
▪ Purpose o Activity
▪ Type
▪ Purpose
▪ Level of difficulty
WEEK 4 - Reading Strategically and Teaching Vocabulary Reading: The 30 Million Word Gap (Hart
and Risley, 1995)
OVERALL ARGUMENTS
• Intervention Program
o Focusonbuildingtheeverydaylanguageofchildren,thenevaluatingthegrowthof
that language.
o Measuredchildrenfromavarietyofbackgroundsi.e.scholarlyparents,workingor
middle class etc.
• Findings
o Althoughsoearuptaeleratioofuulatiegrothihildre’soaas
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