reading skill

collocation in English

meaningsofreadingandskill

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reading
noun
uk
/ˈriː.dɪŋ/
us
/ˈriː.dɪŋ/
the skill or activity of getting information ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk
/skɪl/
us
/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofreadingandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofreading skill

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It is the reader who lacks both knowledge andreadingskillwho is assured failure.
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The deleterious effect of lowreadingskill(and its motivational consequences) on learning through reading creates readers who lack knowledge of all sorts.
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Therefore, phonological awareness is uniquely related to wordreadingskillin an alphabetic orthography in children.
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However, these tests, especially the latter, require metalinguistic knowledge as well asreadingskill.
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We should not be surprised to discover a similar result in cross-writing-systemreadingskill.
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At age 7, these children performed better than children with crystallized ability and short-term memory strengths on both basicreadingskillmeasures.
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This was followed by several measures of earlyreadingskill(letter name and sound knowledge, recognition of common words, and a standardized word identification test).
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Given the long-standing belief that prosody is an important aspect ofreadingskill, there has been surprisingly little study of how prosodic skills develop.
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These findings support the hypothesis that phonological awareness is strongly related to beginning wordreadingskillin an alphabetic orthography.
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It is worth mentioning that the training had a greater impact on thereadingskillof learners with lower proficiency level.
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Instead, alphabetic knowledge and phonological processing were important contributors to earlyreadingskill.
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Readingskilland the identification of words in discourse context.
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The meaning of the link between naming speed andreadingskillremains unclear.
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The results so far show that kindergartners with low levels ofreadingskilltend to overuse letters from their own names when spelling other words.
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Syntactic awareness in relation toreadingskilland ongoing reading comprehension monitoring.
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Because our sample was older, we also controlled forreadingskill.
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How does phonological awareness relate to nonwordreadingskillamongst poor readers?
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The speed with which children name familiar stimuli is a potent predictor ofreadingskill.
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Each of these deficits can account for the relationship between naming speed andreadingskill.
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These conflicting viewpoints and data suggest a need to examine further the possible role of oral language competence in the development of earlyreadingskill.
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