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.