This edited volume presents cutting-edge research on the impact, importance, and development of comprehension in preparing preschoolers for the later demands of reading comprehension.

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Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Evening the Playing Field -- Chapter 2: Vocabulary and Its Role in Early Comprehension Development -- Chapter 3: Using Play to Promote Language Comprehension in Preschoolers -- Chapter 4: The Academic Talk Register -- Chapter 5: Emergent Comprehension in a Digital World -- Chapter 6: Building Emergent Comprehension Through Informational Texts -- Chapter 7: Special Education -- Chapter 8: Multilingualism in Early Childhood -- Chapter 9: The Role of Hot and Cool Executive Functions in Prereader Comprehension -- Chapter 10: Assessment of Comprehension Skills in Prereaders -- Chapter 11: The Parent's Role in Developing Children's Comprehension -- Chapter 12: It Takes Two -- Index.