For today's research bite, Emma is in conversation with Danielle Kates from our PGCE Primary programme. Danielle was keen to investigate ways to improve her pupils' reading comprehension, so she carried out a review of literature in order to make recommendations for her placement schools and her own practice.

You can download Danielle's summary of her research here, and you can watch the video version of this conversation on our YouTube channel.

Thanks to Danielle for joining us to share her research!

Danielle's sources were:

Blything, L.P., Hardie, A. and Cain, K. (2020) ‘Question Asking During Reading Comprehension Instruction: A Corpus Study of How Question Type Influences the Linguistic Complexity of Primary School Students’ Responses’, Reading research quarterly, 55(3), pp. 443–472. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.279.

Estyn (2021), English language and literacy insetting and primary schools. Available at: https://www.estyn.gov.wales/system/files/2022-01/Estyn%20English%20language%20and%20literacy%20E%289%29.pdf

Filderman, M.J. et al. (2022) ‘A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Reading Comprehension Interventions on the Reading Comprehension Outcomes of Struggling Readers in Third Through 12th Grades’, Exceptional children, 88(2), pp. 163–184. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/00144029211050860.

García, J.R. and Cain, K. (2014) ‘Decoding and Reading Comprehension: A Meta-Analysis to Identify Which Reader and Assessment Characteristics Influence the Strength of the Relationship in English’, Review of educational research, 84(1), pp. 74–111. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654313499616.

James, E. et al. (2021) ‘The relations between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in beginner readers to young adolescents’, Journal of research in reading, 44(1), pp. 110–130. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12316.

Logan, J. (2017) ‘Pressure Points in Reading Comprehension: A Quantile Multiple Regression Analysis’, Journal of educational psychology, 109(4), pp. 451–464. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000150.

--------------------------------------------

Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 31st March 2023.