K
Kate Cain
Researcher at Lancaster University
Publications - 131
Citations - 11547
Kate Cain is an academic researcher from Lancaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Reading comprehension & Comprehension. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 122 publications receiving 10435 citations. Previous affiliations of Kate Cain include University of Sussex & Fylde College, Lancaster University.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Children's Reading Comprehension Ability: Concurrent Prediction by Working Memory, Verbal Ability, and Component Skills.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report data from a longitudinal study that addresses the relations between working memory capacity and reading comprehension skills in children aged 8, 9, and 11 years, and assess children's reading ability, vocabulary and verbal skills, performance on two working memory assessments (sentence-span and digit working memory), and component skills of comprehension.
Journal ArticleDOI
The dissociation of word reading and text comprehension: Evidence from component skills
TL;DR: The authors showed that there is a dissociation between the skills and abilities that account for variance in word reading, and those that explain variance in text comprehension, which was best accounted for by a phoneme deletion task.
Journal ArticleDOI
Comprehension skill, inference-making ability, and their relation to knowledge.
TL;DR: There was a strong relation between comprehension skill and inference-making abilityEven when knowledge was equally available to all participants, a procedure that controlled individual differences in general knowledge was investigated.
Journal ArticleDOI
Inference making ability and its relation to comprehension failure in young children
Kate Cain,Jane Oakhill +1 more
TL;DR: Oakhill et al. as mentioned in this paper found that the ability to make inferences was not a byproduct of good reading comprehension, rather that good inference skills are a plausible cause of good comprehension ability.
Inference making ability and its relation to comprehension failure
Kate Cain,Jane Oakhill +1 more
TL;DR: The pattern of performance indicated that the ability to make inferences was not a by-product of good reading comprehension, rather that good inference skills are a plausible cause of goodReading comprehension ability.