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reading comprehension  

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  • In this entry, children's reading comprehension is considered: both its normal development and individual differences and specific difficulties. The majority of research in this area has been conducted on children learning to read in an alphabetic orthography (typically English), and this entry reflects that bias. [Source: Encyclopedia of Language Development; Reading Comprehension]

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