Early classroom reading gains moderate shared environmental influences on reading comprehension in adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reading is important for children's success in school and beyond, yet many adolescents fail to reach expected levels of proficiency. This highlights the need to better understand the factors that influence reading effectiveness over time, including genes and environment. Greater expression of genetic influence on first- and second-grade reading fluency has been observed in higher quality classroom reading environments. To what degree this early environment continues to influence genetic and other environmental influences on later reading is unknown and was tested in this study.

Methods

The quality of the early classroom reading environment was approximated by gains in oral reading fluency (ORF) across the school year among first- or second-grade classmates of 546

SUBMITTER: Taylor J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7138719 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature