The reading wars were fought over the importance of sentence- versus word-level information to students’ reading. As the field considers new debates on the science of reading, we argue here that sustained empirical inquiry into the role of sentence-level information in students’ reading skill is needed. These investigations could be particularly useful in identifying ways to support reading comprehension. In this article, we review theories pointing to this possibility, as well as key pieces of available empirical evidence. We also identify crucial gaps in knowledge, as the field must assess the mechanisms by which this relation functions, which will inform instruction, and potential changes in this relation across development and across aspects of this skill. Advancement in each of these areas will lead to a comprehensive understanding of the relation between sentence-level skills and reading comprehension, which can inform effective instruction in the classroom.

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告知阅读科学：学生对句子级信息的意识对阅读理解很重要

阅读大战是围绕句子级与单词级信息对学生阅读的重要性展开的。当该领域考虑关于阅读科学的新辩论时，我们在这里认为需要对句子级信息在学生阅读技能中的作用进行持续的实证调查。这些调查在确定支持阅读理解的方法方面可能特别有用。在本文中，我们回顾了指出这种可能性的理论，以及可用的经验证据的关键部分。我们还确定了知识中的关键差距，因为该领域必须评估这种关系发挥作用的机制，这将为教学提供信息，以及这种关系在整个发展和跨该技能方面的潜在变化。