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- Title
Laughing Through Rereadings: Using Joke Books to Build Fluency.
- Authors
Ness, Molly
- Abstract
The article reports on educational efforts to build fluency in reading and increase a student's understanding of attributes in speech. The author focuses on the importance of prosody to effective reading strategies, pointing out that effective readers read text in a manner similar to hearing speech, using punctuation as a guide to parsing. A student's ability to read out loud often can indicate problems with reading comprehension. The author found that using a book of jokes when tutoring an elementary school student helped the student gain insights into timing, punctuation, and work emphasis--skills that carried over into her other reading assignments.
- Subjects
ORAL reading; JUVENILE wit &; humor; JESTBOOKS; READING (Elementary); READING comprehension; VERSIFICATION; TUTORS &; tutoring; RHYTHM in the English language; LITERATURE appreciation
- Publication
Reading Teacher, 2009, Vol 62, Issue 8, p691
- ISSN
0034-0561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/RT.62.8.7