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  1. Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Predictors of Reading Comprehension in Monolingual English and Spanish–English Bilingual Sixth Graders

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor Kate Cain, Dr. Shelley I Gray, Dr Maria Adelaida Restrepo

  2. The Role of Prekindergarten Spanish in Predicting First-Grade English Word Reading Among Dual-Language Learners

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr Maria Adelaida Restrepo, Professor Kate Cain

  3. 2018 Society for Text and Discourse Annual Meeting: Introduction to the Special Issue

    Article • Discourse Processes, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kate Cain

  4. The Simple View of Reading Across Development: Prediction of Grade 3 Reading Comprehension From Prekindergarten Skills

    Article • Remedial and Special Education, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Kate Cain

  5. Reading comprehension difficulties in children with rolandic epilepsy

    Article • Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, December 2017, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  6. The use of questions to scaffold narrative coherence and cohesion

    Article • Journal of Research in Reading, October 2017, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  7. The Dimensionality of Inference Making: Are Local and Global Inferences Distinguishable?

    Article • Scientific Studies of Reading, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kate Cain

  8. Within- and cross-language contributions of morphological awareness to word reading development in Chinese–English bilingual children

    Article • Reading and Writing, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kate Cain

  9. Theories of Reading Development

    Article • July 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Kate Cain, Rauno Parrila

  10. Development of comprehension monitoring in beginner readers

    Article • Reading and Writing, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kate Cain

  11. From words to text: inference making mediates the role of vocabulary in children’s reading comprehension

    Article • Reading and Writing, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kate Cain

  12. Oral Language and Listening Comprehension: Same or Different Constructs?

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, May 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Shelley I Gray, Professor Kate Cain

  13. Understanding the semantic functions of but in middle childhood: The role of text- and sentence-level comprehension abilities

    Article • First Language, April 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Kate Cain

  14. Pressure points in reading comprehension: A quantile multiple regression analysis.

    Article • Journal of Educational Psychology, January 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Kate Cain

  15. Predicting word reading ability: a quantile regression study

    Article • Journal of Research in Reading, October 2016, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  16. A multi-site review of policies affecting opportunities for children with developmental disabilities to become bilingual

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Kate Cain

  17. Access to opportunities for bilingualism for individuals with developmental disabilities: Key informant interviews

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Kate Cain

  18. Professional practices and opinions about services available to bilingual children with developmental disabilities: An international study

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Kate Cain

  19. iPads and the Use of “Apps” by Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Do They Promote Learning?

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Kate Cain

  20. Lexical prosody beyond first-language boundary: Chinese lexical tone sensitivity predicts English reading comprehension

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, August 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Kate Cain

  21. Assessing school-aged children's inference-making: the effect of story test format in listening comprehension

    Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, June 2016, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain, Dr Jenny Freed

  22. Investigating profiles of lexical quality in preschool and their contribution to first grade reading

    Article • Reading and Writing, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Shelley I Gray, Professor Kate Cain

  23. Ten Steps to Conducting a Large, Multi-Site, Longitudinal Investigation of Language and Reading in Young Children

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, March 2016, Frontiers

    Dr. Shelley I Gray, Professor Kate Cain, Dr Kelly Farquharson

  24. Use of the Curriculum Research Framework (CRF) for Developing a Reading-Comprehension Curricular Supplement for the Primary Grades

    Article • The Elementary School Journal, March 2016, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Shelley I Gray, Professor Kate Cain

  25. Understanding of Idiomatic Expressions in Context in Skilled and Less Skilled Comprehenders: Online Processing and Interpretation

    Article • Scientific Studies of Reading, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kate Cain

  26. A Pilot Study of the Impact of Double-Dose Robust Vocabulary Instruction on Children's Vocabulary Growth

    Article • Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Shelley I Gray, Professor Kate Cain

  27. Children’s processing and comprehension of complex sentences containing temporal connectives: The influence of memory on the time course of accurate responses.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Kate Cain

  28. The Dimensionality of Language Ability in Young Children

    Article • Child Development, October 2015, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain, Dr. Shelley I Gray

  29. Improving the Language Skills of Pre-kindergarten Students: Preliminary Impacts of the Let’s Know! Experimental Curriculum

    Article • Child & Youth Care Forum, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Shelley I Gray, Professor Kate Cain

  30. Children’s Reading Comprehension and Comprehension Difficulties

    Article • September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Kate Cain

  31. Children’s inference generation: The role of vocabulary and working memory

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, September 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Kate Cain

  32. Young Children's Comprehension of Temporal Relations in Complex Sentences: The Influence of Memory on Performance

    Article • Child Development, August 2015, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  33. Inferential revision in narrative texts: An ERP study

    Article • Memory & Cognition, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kate Cain

  34. The Dimensionality of Spanish in Young Spanish–English Dual-Language Learners

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2015, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Shelley I Gray, Dr Maria Adelaida Restrepo, Professor Kate Cain

  35. Do iPads promote symbolic understanding and word learning in children with autism?

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Kate Cain

  36. Learning to Read: Should We Keep Things Simple?

    Article • Reading Research Quarterly, January 2015, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  37. A Comparison of Deaf and Hearing Childrenʼs Reading Comprehension Profiles

    Article • Topics in Language Disorders, January 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Kate Cain

  38. The relations between lower and higher level comprehension skills and their role in prediction of early reading comprehension.

    Article • Journal of Educational Psychology, January 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Kate Cain

  39. Reading comprehension and vocabulary: Is vocabulary more important for some aspects of comprehension?

    Article • L’Année psychologique, December 2014, Editions NecPlus

    Professor Kate Cain

  40. Improving Language-Focused Comprehension Instruction in Primary-Grade Classrooms: Impacts of the Let’s Know! Experimental Curriculum

    Article • Educational Psychology Review, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kate Cain, Dr. Shelley I Gray

  41. Effect of Imagery Training on Children's Comprehension of Pronouns

    Article • The Journal of Educational Research, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kate Cain

  42. Early narrative skills in Chilean preschool: Questions scaffold the production of coherent narratives

    Article • Early Childhood Research Quarterly, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Kate Cain

  43. Morphological and Syntactic Awareness in Poor Comprehenders

    Article • Journal of Learning Disabilities, December 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Kate Cain

  44. Introduction to the Special Issue. Theories of Reading: What We Have Learned From Two Decades of Scientific Research

    Article • Scientific Studies of Reading, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kate Cain

  45. Decoding and Reading Comprehension: A Meta-Analysis to Identify Which Reader and Assessment Characteristics Influence the Strength of the Relationship in English

    Article • Review of Educational Research, September 2013, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Professor Kate Cain

  46. Reading and listening comprehension and their relation to inattention and hyperactivity

    Article • British Journal of Educational Psychology, February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  47. The Precursors of Reading Ability in Young Readers: Evidence From a Four-Year Longitudinal Study

    Article • Scientific Studies of Reading, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kate Cain

  48. The Simple View of Reading: Is It Valid for Different Types of Alphabetic Orthographies?

    Article • Educational Psychology Review, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kate Cain

  49. Matthew Effects in Young Readers

    Article • Journal of Learning Disabilities, July 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Kate Cain

  50. What we have learned from ‘learning to read in more than one language’

    Article • Journal of Research in Reading, February 2011, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  51. The influence of connectives on young readers' processing and comprehension of text.

    Article • Journal of Educational Psychology, January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Kate Cain

  52. Morphological awareness: A key to understanding poor reading comprehension in English.

    Article • Journal of Educational Psychology, January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Kate Cain

  53. The development of idiom comprehension: An investigation of semantic and contextual processing skills

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, March 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Kate Cain

  54. To Get Hold of the Wrong End of the Stick: Reasons for Poor Idiom Understanding in Children With Reading Comprehension Difficulties

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2008, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor Kate Cain

  55. Pragmatic aspects of communication and language comprehension in groups of children differentiated by teacher ratings of inattention and hyperactivity

    Article • British Journal of Developmental Psychology, November 2007, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  56. Deriving word meanings from context: does explanation facilitate contextual analysis?

    Article • Journal of Research in Reading, November 2007, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  57. Syntactic awareness and reading ability: Is there any evidence for a special relationship?

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, September 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Kate Cain

  58. Children's reading comprehension and assessment by PARIS, S. G. and STAHL, S. A.

    Article • Journal of Research in Reading, May 2007, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  59. Comprehension problems in children with specific language impairment: does mental imagery training help?

    Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  60. Profiles of children with specific reading comprehension difficulties

    Article • British Journal of Educational Psychology, December 2006, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  61. Assessment matters: Issues in the measurement of reading comprehension

    Article • British Journal of Educational Psychology, December 2006, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  62. Individual differences in children's memory and reading comprehension: An investigation of semantic and inhibitory deficits

    Article • Memory, July 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kate Cain

  63. Children's Reading Comprehension

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Kate Cain

  64. Reading Processes in Children

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Kate Cain

  65. Age- and ability-related differences in young readers' use of conjunctions

    Article • Journal of Child Language, November 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Kate Cain

  66. The relation between children’s reading comprehension level and their comprehension of idioms

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Kate Cain

  67. Individual Differences in the Inference of Word Meanings From Context: The Influence of Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Knowledge, and Memory Capacity.

    Article • Journal of Educational Psychology, January 2004, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Kate Cain

  68. Children's Reading Comprehension Ability: Concurrent Prediction by Working Memory, Verbal Ability, and Component Skills.

    Article • Journal of Educational Psychology, January 2004, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Kate Cain

  69. Reading Comprehension Difficulties

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kate Cain

  70. Text comprehension and its relation to coherence and cohesion in children's fictional narratives

    Article • British Journal of Developmental Psychology, September 2003, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  71. The dissociation of word reading and text comprehension: Evidence from component skills

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, August 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kate Cain

  72. The ability to learn new word meanings from context by school-age children with and without language comprehension difficulties

    Article • Journal of Child Language, August 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Kate Cain

  73. Comprehension skill, inference-making ability, and their relation to knowledge

    Article • Memory & Cognition, September 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kate Cain

  74. Article • Reading and Writing, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kate Cain

  75. Article • Reading and Writing, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kate Cain

  76. Children's Difficulties in Text Comprehension: Assessing Causal Issues

    Article • The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, January 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Kate Cain

  77. Ways of reading: How knowledge and use of strategies are related to reading comprehension

    Article • British Journal of Developmental Psychology, June 1999, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  78. Article • Reading and Writing, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kate Cain

  79. Selective Retention of Information about the Superficial Form of Text: Ellipses W ith Antecedents in Main and Subordinate Clauses

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, February 1998, SAGE Publications

    Professor Kate Cain

  80. Selective Retention of Information about the Superficial Form of Text: Ellipses With Antecedents in Main and Subordinate Clauses

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, February 1998, SAGE Publications

    Professor Kate Cain, Alan Garnham

  81. Problems in Text Comprehension: Current Perspectives and Recent Research

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kate Cain

  82. The Interpretation of Anaphoric Noun Phrases Time Course, and Effects of Overspecificity

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, February 1997, SAGE Publications

    Professor Kate Cain

  83. The Interpretation of Anaphoric Noun Phrases Time Course, and Effects of Overspecificity

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, February 1997, SAGE Publications

    Professor Kate Cain, Alan Garnham

  84. The Use of Stereotypical Gender Information in Constructing a Mental Model: Evidence from English and Spanish

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, August 1996, SAGE Publications

    Professor Kate Cain, Alan Garnham

  85. The Use of Stereotypical Gender Information in Constructing a Mental Model: Evidence from English and Spanish

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, August 1996, SAGE Publications

    Professor Kate Cain, Alan Garnham

  86. The nature of the relationship between comprehension skill and the ability to tell a story

    Article • British Journal of Developmental Psychology, June 1996, Wiley

    Professor Kate Cain

  87. How natural are conceptual anaphors?

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, August 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kate Cain, Alan Garnham

  88. Reading Comprehension

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Kate Cain

  89. Inference processing in children: the contributions of depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Kate Cain

  90. Deeper Learning in Reading Comprehension

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Kate Cain