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Poor Reading Comprehension

Poor Reading Comprehension is a reading performance construct characterized by significant difficulty in constructing meaning from text despite adequate decoding skills, distinguishing it from broader reading disabilities that involve word-level deficits.

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Matthew Effects in Reading: Some Consequences of Individual Differences in the Acquisition of Literacy

Keith E. Stanovich · Reading Research Quarterly · 1986 · 5.2K citations

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Language Deficits in Poor Comprehenders: A Case for the Simple View of Reading

Hugh W. Catts, Suzanne M. Adlof, Susan Ellis Weismer · Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research · 2006 · 943 citations

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Cognitive profiles of difficult-to-remediate and readily remediated poor readers: Early intervention as a vehicle for distinguishing between cognitive and experiential deficits as basic causes of specific reading disability.

Frank R. Vellutino, Donna M. Scanlon, Edward R. Sipay et al. · Journal of Educational Psychology · 1996 · 922 citations

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The Comprehension Strategies of Second Language Readers

Ellen Block · TESOL Quarterly · 1986 · 714 citations

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Preventing reading failure in young children with phonological processing disabilities: Group and individual responses to instruction.

Joseph K. Torgesen, Richard K. Wagner, Carol A. Rashotte et al. · Journal of Educational Psychology · 1999 · 708 citations

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    Kate Nation

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    25 publications · 4.7K citations

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    Sharon Vaughn

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    30 publications · 2.4K citations

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    Kate Cain

    Lancaster University, United Kingdom

    19 publications · 2.8K citations

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    Margaret J. Snowling

    University of York, United Kingdom

    18 publications · 2.9K citations

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    Jane Oakhill

    University of Sussex, United Kingdom

    19 publications · 3K citations

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  1. Florida State University

    Tallahassee, United States

    28 h-index

    66 publications

    6.9K citations

  2. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    27 h-index

    109 publications

    11K citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    25 h-index

    51 publications

    8.7K citations

  4. University of Houston

    Houston, United States

    23 h-index

    78 publications

    4.3K citations

  5. Vanderbilt University

    Nashville, United States

    22 h-index

    55 publications

    4.2K citations

  6. University of York

    York, United Kingdom

    22 h-index

    42 publications

    9.3K citations

  7. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    17 h-index

    22 publications

    1.2K citations

  8. Haskins Laboratories

    New Haven, United States

    17 h-index

    37 publications

    4.2K citations

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  1. Reading and Writing

    62 publications · 4.3K citations

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  2. Journal of Learning Disabilities

    JLD · 61 publications · 4.6K citations

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  3. Journal of Educational Psychology

    67 publications · 7.2K citations

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  4. Reading Research Quarterly

    RRQ · 33 publications · 7.9K citations

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  5. Learning Disability Quarterly

    LDQ · 29 publications · 1.9K citations

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