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Leisure Reading (But Not Any Kind) and Reading Comprehension Support Each Other : A Longitudinal Study Across Grades 1 and 9 (2020)
Torppa, M., Niemi, P., Vasalampi, K., Lerkkanen, M.-K., Tolvanen, A., & Poikkeus, A.-M. (2020). Leisure Reading (But Not Any Kind) and Reading Comprehension Support Each Other : A Longitudinal Study Across Grades 1 and 9. Child Development, 91(3), 876-900. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13241
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Torppa, Minna; Niemi, Pekka; Vasalampi, Kati; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Tolvanen, Asko; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija
Journal or series: Child Development
ISSN: 0009-3920
eISSN: 1467-8624
Publication year: 2020
Volume: 91
Issue number: 3
Pages range: 876-900
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Publication country: United States
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13241
Publication open access: Not open
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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/68293
Abstract
This study examines associations between leisure reading and reading skills in data of 2,525 students followed from age 7 to 16. As a step further from traditional cross‐lagged analysis, a random intercept cross‐lagged panel model was used to identify within‐person associations of leisure reading (books, magazines, newspapers, and digital reading), reading fluency, and reading comprehension. In Grades 1–3 poorer comprehension and fluency predicted less leisure reading. In later grades more frequent leisure reading, particularly of books, predicted better reading comprehension. Negative associations were found between digital reading and reading skills. The findings specify earlier findings of correlations between individuals by showing that reading comprehension improvement, in particular, is predicted by within‐individual increases in book reading.
Keywords: longitudinal research; reading as recreation; literacy; reading comprehension; school-age children
Free keywords: leisure reading; reading skills
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Ministry reporting: Yes
Reporting Year: 2020
JUFO rating: 3
