HIGHER&LEVEL LANGUAGE AND READING COMPREHENSION 1 The relations between lower- and higher-level comprehension skills and their role in prediction of early reading comprehension Macarena Silva Kate Cain* Lancaster University UK AUTHOR NOTE Correspondence about this article should be addressed to Kate Cain, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, LA1 4YF, UK. k.cain@lancaster.ac.uk. This research was conducted as part of Macarena Silva's PhD at Lancaster University, supported by Becas Chile. Additional funds for this Project FB0003 have been provided by the Associative Research Program of CONICYT. Paper accepted for publication in Journal of Educational Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0037769