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.