Ep. 139: Why Knowledge Matters for Comprehension with Daniel Willingham and Barbara Davidson
Melissa & Lori Love Literacy ® | Science of Reading for Teachers
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Is There Any Research for Reading Comprehension?
Language is sometimes ambiguous and frequently a good deal of information that the speaker or writer intends their audience to understand is actually omitted. Once you get to making inferences across sentences, again knowledge is important. So an example I give my book Trisha Spilder Coffee, Dan jumped up to get a rag - this is where you see grammatical ambiguity at the level of individual sentences.
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