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Direct linkKang, Eun Young; Shin, Mikyung – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution of decoding and reading fluency to reading comprehension and how it differs across different types of comprehension measures among 4th-grade students with reading difficulties and disabilities (M age = 9.8, SD = 0.6). Results indicated that decoding and reading fluency predicted 8.1% to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Reading Fluency, Decoding (Reading)
Schimmel, Naomi; Ness, Molly – Reading Psychology, 2017
This study examined the effects of reading mode (oral and silent) and text genre (narrative and expository) on fourth graders' reading comprehension. While controlling for prior reading ability of 48 participants, we measured comprehension. Using a repeated measured design, data were analyzed using analysis of covariance, paired t-tests, and…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Silent Reading, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students
Price, Katherine W.; Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Louwerse, Max M.; D'Mello, Sidney – Reading Psychology, 2016
Silent reading fluency has received limited attention in the school-based literatures across the past decade. We fill this gap by examining both oral and silent reading fluency and their relation to overall abilities in reading comprehension in fourth-grade students. Lower-level reading skills (word reading, rapid automatic naming) and vocabulary…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Silent Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
Trainin, Guy; Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Wilson, Kathleen M. – Reading Psychology, 2015
This study examined the relationships between silent and oral reading fluency and comprehension. Findings indicated that fourth grade students had consistent levels of comprehension in both reading modes. Students of all reading levels showed a similar pattern across the segments of a text set in both oral and silent reading--a gradual increase in…
Descriptors: Correlation, Silent Reading, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency
Download full textFrench, Michael P.; Rumschlag, Karen – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2004
The purpose of the present investigation was to sample the range of texts selected by 21 students in sustained silent reading in a single fourth-grade classroom. Using a sampling technique developed by French and Foster (1992), single pages from sampled texts were evaluated. The evaluation found that most students were reading fiction (n = 14),…
Descriptors: Sustained Silent Reading, Reading Material Selection, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
