S3-10. Deconstructing the Rope: Language structures with Kate Cain

Published: May 19, 2021, 7 a.m.

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Join Kate Cain, professor of language and literacy at Lancaster University, as she unwinds language structures, a strand of Scarborough\\u2019s Reading Rope. In the latest episode of our Deconstructing the Rope series, Kate explores language structures in the simple view of reading and explains its connections across reading comprehension in literacy development. She also highlights the reciprocal relationship between books and conversation and underscores the importance of reading aloud to children from a young age to develop their vocabulary and semantics.\\xa0

Quotes:

\\u201cSimply knowing the individual word meanings and the word order alone is not going to be sufficient to have accurate sentence comprehension.\\u201d

\\u201cThe language of books is different from the language of conversation.\\u201d

References:

Professor Kate Cain\\u2019s Publications Site

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