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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 ...

• Kindergarten pre-reading skills predict Grade 9 reading comprehension (PISA Reading) but fail to explain gender difference 

  Manu, Mari; Torppa, Minna; Eklund, Kenneth; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Niemi, Pekka (Springer, 2021)

  One of the aims for compulsory education is to diminish or alleviate differences in children’s skills existing prior to school entry. However, a growing gender gap in reading development has increasingly been documented. ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Developmental profiles of reading fluency and reading comprehension from grades 1 to 9 and their early identification 

  Psyridou, Maria; Tolvanen, Asko; de Jong, Peter F.; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Torppa, Minna (American Psychological Association (APA), 2021)

  This study examined developmental profiles of reading fluency and reading comprehension in Grades 1 to 9 (ages 7 to 15) in a large Finnish sample (N = 2,518). In addition, early predictors of the profiles were analyzed ...