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Who are poor comprehenders: blog

Who are poor comprehenders?

There’s been much discussion recently regarding the “language gap” and the “word gap” — the recognition that there are huge variations in levels of children’s language ability by the time they start school. Some of our research has investigated how children’s spoken language sets the foundation for literacy development. It is clear that children with low levels of spoken language are at risk for reading failure, particularly with it comes to reading comprehension.

This biggest barrier to adequate reading comprehension is not being able to read well in the first place. Put simply, if children can’t read words accurately and efficiently, comprehension will suffer. For some children however, this is not an adequate explanation. Despite being able to read accurately and fluently, perhaps as many as 10% of children in the upper primary years are poor at understanding what they read. Such children are often described as poor comprehenders and for many of these children, problems with text comprehension are associated with lower levels of language more generally.

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