Component skills of reading and their structural relations: evidence from three sub‐Saharan African languages with transparent orthographies

Background We examined the component skills of reading comprehension (i.e., letter sound knowledge, syllable reading fluency, decoding fluency, text or oral reading fluency and listening comprehension) and their structural relations using data from three sub‐Saharan African languages with transparent orthographies in a multilingual context. Methods Data from Kiswahili ( N = 946), Kikamba ( N = 444) and Lubukusu ( N = 499) reading assessments at...