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• Kirjojen lukeminen tukee luetun ymmärtämisen kehitystä 

  Torppa, Minna; Nurminen, Tiia; Niemi, Pekka; Vasalampi, Kati; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Tolvanen, Asko; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija (Niilo Mäki Instituutti, 2021)

  Tässä artikkelissa esittelemme keskeiset havainnot tutkimuksesta (Torppa ym., 2020), jossa tarkasteltiin vapaa-ajan lukemisen ja lukutaidon kehityksen suhdetta. Kysyimme, ennustaako lukutaito lukemisen määrää vai ennustaako ...

• How Are Practice and Performance Related? Development of Reading From Age 5 to 15 

  van Bergen, Elsje; Vasalampi, Kati; Torppa, Minna (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)

  Does reading a lot lead to better reading skills, or does reading a lot follow from high initial reading skills? The authors present a longitudinal study of how much children choose to read and how well they decode and ...

• The Predictors of Literacy Skills among Monolingual and Bilingual Finnish-Swedish Children During First Grade 

  Vataja, Pia; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Aro, Mikko; Westerholm, Jari; Risberg, Ann-Katrine; Salmi, Paula (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021)

  The aim of the study was to examine which predictor variables are related to literacy skills among monolingual Swedish (n = 269) and bilingual Finnish–Swedish (n = 229) children at the first grade in the Swedish-speaking ...

• Longitudinal associations between teacher-child interactions and academic skills in elementary school 

  Pakarinen, Eija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Salminen, Jenni; Silinskas, Gintautas; Siekkinen, Martti; Nurmi, Jari-Erik (Elsevier Science Inc., 2017)

  This study examined the extent to which the quality of teacher-child interactions assessed in kindergarten (6-year-olds) is associated with children's reading and math development across the elementary school years. The ...

• Assessing reading and online research comprehension : Do difficulties in attention and executive function matter? 

  Kanniainen, Laura; Kiili, Carita; Tolvanen, Asko; Aro, Mikko; Anmarkrud, Øistein; Leppänen, Paavo H.T. (Elsevier BV, 2021)

  This study evaluated the relation between sixth graders' (N = 426) teacher-rated difficulties in attention and executive function (EF) and their comprehension skills. Reading comprehension was assessed with a multiple-choice ...