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- Title
Children’s Reading Comprehension and Oral Reading Fluency in Easy Text.
- Authors
Spear-Swerling, Louise
- Abstract
This study explored third-graders’ oral reading fluency (ORF) in easy text in relation to their third- and fourth-grade reading comprehension. It also examined the children’s performance on two different measures of text exposure, a self-report questionnaire and a title-recognition test. Although third-graders’ ORF related significantly to their reading comprehension, oral language comprehension accounted for most of the variance in reading comprehension, whereas single word reading speed accounted for most of the variance in ORF. Third-grade reading comprehension and ORF each predicted unique variance in children’s scores on a fourth-grade state-mandated reading comprehension assessment. Scores on the self-report questionnaire correlated significantly with third-grade ORF and fourth-grade reading; the self-report accounted for reliable variance in ORF even with all of the other reading ability variables entered first. Results are consistent with the viewpoint that text exposure affects reading fluency. They also demonstrate that ORF is a valuable predictor of middle-elementary children’s reading comprehension, even when the ORF measure employs very easy text in which children achieve near-perfect word accuracy.
- Subjects
READING comprehension; THIRD grade (Education); ORAL reading; FLUENCY (Language learning); VOCABULARY; REMEDIAL reading teaching; READING ability testing; READING -- Language experience approach
- Publication
Reading & Writing, 2006, Vol 19, Issue 2, p199
- ISSN
0922-4777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11145-005-4114-x