prosody and fluent reading

Prosody and Fluent Reading

Heather AllisonJessica Shortridge

Are you tired of your child reading

poorly?

Then try these techniques..

Repeated Reading

Text segmenting

Auditory Modeling

Better?

Reading fluency is often a neglected goal of

elementary classrooms, but if these techniques were put into practice readers would reap the benefits!

Actresses:

Kendall Sandy

Dowhower, S. (2001) Speaking of Prosody: Fluency’s Unattended Bedfellow. Theory Into Practice, 30, 165-175.

Schreiber, P. (2001) Understanding Prosody’s Role in Reading Acquisition. Theory Into Practice, 30, 158-164.

Rasinski, T., Rikli, A., Johnston, S. (2009) Reading Fluency: More Than Automaticity? More Than a Concern for the Primary Grades? Literacy Research Instruction, 48, 350-361.

Kuhn, M. Helping students become accurate expressive readers: Fluency instruction for small groups. (2004) International Reading Association, 338-344

Schwanenflugel, P., Kuhn, M., Wisenbaker, J., Stahl, S., Hamilton, A.M. (2004) Becoming a Fluent Reader: Reading Skill and Prosodic Features in the Oral Reading of Young Readers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96, 119-129.

Miller, J. and Schwanenflugel, P. (2006) Prosody of Syntactically Complex Sentences in the Oral Reading of Young Children. Journal of Educational Psychology, 98, 839-853.

Begeny, J. and Silber, J. (2006) An Examination of Group-Based Treatment Packages for Increasing Elementary-Aged Students’ Reading Fluency. Psychology in the Schools, 43, 183-195.