Automatic speech recognition (ASR) can be used to score oral reading fuency (ORF) assessments to ameliorate current inadequacies (e.g., administration errors, high opportunity cost), and represents an important part of a larger solution to improve traditional ORF. But more research is needed on how ASR performs for diverse student groups. The…

This study examined orthographic learning in oral and silent reading conditions. Dutch third graders read, either aloud or silently, short texts containing novel target (pseudo) words. The acquisition of new word-specific orthographic knowledge was assessed several days later by comparing target spellings with homophonic spellings in tasks…

Describes a study which examined the influence of the impulsive-reflective dimension of cognitive style on the type of linguistic cue systems a reader used to reconstruct meaning from print. (JM)

Reports on a study that examined the extent to which text with disparate discourse force or type tendencies had a general or differential impact upon the responses of good and poor readers. (HOD)

Examines the connections between oral reading abilities and spelling behaviors of third- and fifth-grade students. Confirms a strong relationship between spelling skill and oral reading ability, supporting the argument that a common body of conceptual word knowledge underlies both. (RS)

VERBAL REACTION TIMES TO WORD FORMS THAT DIFFER IN THEIR PRONOUNCEABILITY WERE ASSESSED FOR SIGNFICANCE OF CORRELATION. SINGLE PSEUDOWORDS OF VARYING PRONOUNCEABILITY WERE SHOWN TO 36 THIRD AND FOURTH GRADERS, AND THEIR REACTION TIMES FOR ORAL RESPONSES WERE MEASURED. THE RESPONSES WERE TAPE RECORDED, AND THE PERIOD OF TIME FROM THE EXPOSURE OF…

Found that the ability of third grade students to answer literal and inferential comprehension questions was unaffected by the mode of reception (listening, oral reading, silent reading) when controls were imposed on reading achievement and difficulty level of the material. (FL)

Examines the effects of prior knowledge and oral reading accuracy on miscues and comprehension of third-grade average readers who read expository passages orally. Finds that children with high prior knowledge made fewer miscues which resulted in meaning loss, and that their miscues were graphically less similar to the text word. (MM)

Examines the contribution of orthographic processing skills to individual differences on five types of reading measures for third grade children. Finds that orthographic skills contributed significantly to each type of reading. Finds that significant variation still remains after print exposure is partialed out of the regression. (RS)

Determines whether the oral reading performances of grade three students speaking a Newfoundland dialect are affected by syntactic differences between the dialect and Standard English. (RB)

Third grade students' comprehension scores suggest that there is a significant difference between three modes of reception (oral reading, silent reading, and listening), with oral reading significantly more effective than silent reading in promoting comprehension. (HOD)

A study examined whether oral, silent, or choral reading would affect reading comprehension. Subjects were 22 heterogeneously grouped third grade students. Two groups of 11 subjects were assigned to each of the following three samples during a three week period: (1) oral reading; (2) silent reading; and (3) choral reading. To analyze results,…

To assess the success of third grade readers in segmenting written text into the ideational groupings judged appropriate by adult readers, 22 students were given two prose selections and told to mark each location where a good reader might pause or take a breath while reading a story out loud. Their pausal locations were then compared to those…