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- Title
Explicit Teaching of Reading Fluency and Students' Reading Comprehension in Elementary School.
- Authors
Dubé, France; Ouellet, Chantal; Bessette, Lyne
- Abstract
Many young students experience significant problems in reading, a factor that may lead to later learning difficulties and dropping out of school. Students who lack reading fluency will find it more difficult to understand a text. Explicit teaching would be particularly effective in teaching students at risk. This research project studies the effects of a reading program with educational activities that target specific strategies on fluency and reading comprehension. The program is being piloted from third to fourth grade (n = 56). A pre-test and a post-test were administered to evaluate students ' reading fluency as well as a pre- and a post-reading comprehension test to track the students ' progress. In order to assess the overall performance of students, we selected three components to measure their fluency: their accuracy, their speed, and their expression. Our findings show that many at-risk students and students with difficulties made progress in their reading fluency. Additionally, correlations could be observed between the improvement in fluency and the results of the reading comprehension tests.
- Subjects
READING; READING comprehension; ELEMENTARY education; TEACHING; FLUENCY (Language learning)
- Publication
International Journal of Learner Diversity & Identities, 2016, Vol 23, Issue 2, p31
- ISSN
2327-0128
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18848/2327-0128/cgp/v23i02/31-40