Dyslexia & The Eyes · 2,500 Core Vocab to Teach· Moms vs Dads in Storybook Reading
Hi Everyone! Just FYI I have embedded links to the article’s abstract (or the full article if it is open access) in the citation’s DOI- the underlined part at the end of the study citation. This way you do not have to search the paragraph for the link to the study, it will always be in the same place. Let me know if you have any feedback.
Dyslexia Unlikely Due to Visual Deficits
Some people believe that dyslexia is caused by deficits in the visual pathway- a theory that is often referred to as the magnocellular theory of dyslexia. However, this study examined 83 college students on magnocellular performance and found no relation to their reading rate or rapid letter naming ability, stating that a magnocellular deficit is “unlikely the primary cause” of reading differences in adults. Citation: Ashley A. Edwards & Christopher Schatschneider (2020) Magnocellular Pathway and Reading Rate: An Equivalence Test Analysis, Scientific Studies of Reading, 24:3, 264-273, DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2019.1663856
2,500 Core Vocab Word Families and How to Teach Them
This open access article (open access means that the full article is available for free) states that there is a “core vocabulary” of 2,500 word families that account for a large percent of school text and highlights the importance of teaching 3 aspects of word knowledge: semantic connections, morphological connections, and knowledge of different meanings of the words (polysemy). Elfrieda “Freddy” Hiebert (the author of the article) has a lot of great resources on text complexity over at The Text Project. Citation: Hiebert, E.H. ( 2020). The Core Vocabulary: The Foundation of Proficient Comprehension. The Reading Teacher, 73( 6), 757– 768. https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.1894
Mom Is Important For Storybook Reading
In this study, storybook reading to children was examined in 8,400 two-parent households. They found: (1) there was a continuity effect for moms but not dads (moms who read to their children at 10 months also read to them at 4 years old), (2) mom’s storybook reading at 10 months predicted dad’s reading to their children at 4 years old, (3) but that moms and dads did not mutually influence each other over time in their reading habits. This study seems to highlight the importance of moms in setting the tone for storybook reading, but maybe future research could explore methods for increasing partner 2’s involvement (hoping this research is not used to mom-shame/put more pressure on moms). Citation: Christine Meng (2020) A Longitudinal Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediation Model of Storybook Reading: Children’s Word Use as a Mediator, Scientific Studies of Reading, 24:3, 200-213, DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2019.1645670
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