Textual Scaffolds for Developing Fluency in Beginning Readers: Accuracy and Reading Rate in Qualitatively Leveled and Decodable Text

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Anne E. Mesmer
Keyword(s):  
Reading Rate ◽  
Beginning Readers ◽  
Decodable Text

Beginning readers for José and Anita.

1926 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 573-573
Author(s):  
Anna Shumaker
Keyword(s):  
Beginning Readers

scholarly journals Exploring the Moderation Effect of Educational Stage on Visual Magnocellular Functioning Linked to Reading: A Study in French Primary School Children

Children ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Bellocchi ◽  
Virginie Leclercq
Keyword(s):  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Beginning Readers ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Magnocellular System ◽  
Reading Abilities ◽  
Developing Readers ◽  
System Functioning ◽  
Advanced Readers ◽  
The Relationship

Many studies have investigated the visual magnocellular system functioning in dyslexia. However, very little is known on the relationship between the visual magnocellular system functioning and reading abilities in typical developing readers. In this study, we aimed at studying this relationship and more specifically the moderation effect of educational stage on this link. We thus tested 82 French typical developing readers (40 beginning readers—Grade 1 and 42 advanced readers—Grade 5) with reading tests and a coherent dot motion task measuring the visual magnocellular functioning. Results indicate positive correlations between visual magnocellular functioning and reading for beginning readers but not for advanced readers. Moreover, moderation analyses confirm that reading proficiency moderates the relationship between magnocellular system functioning and reading outcomes. We concluded that the relationship between visual magnocellular pathway functioning and reading abilities in typical developing readers could depend on reading proficiency.

Phrase-Reading Mediates Between Words and Syntax in Struggling Adolescent Readers

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 162-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patsy Nomvete ◽  
Susan R. Easterbrooks
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Struggling Readers ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Reading Rate ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Syntactic Awareness ◽  
Adolescent Readers ◽  
Struggling Adolescent Readers ◽  
Positive Significant Correlation ◽  
Passage Reading

The components involved in adolescent reading are complex and not clearly understood in struggling readers. Phrase reading, a language skill associated with prosodic understanding of syntactic phrases, has received little attention. We studied 70 adolescent readers including delayed readers to answer the following questions: (a) Do phrase-reading ability, syntactic awareness, passage-reading rate, and reading comprehension have a positive, significant correlation; (b) Do language-related variables (i.e., phrasing ability, syntactic awareness) account for more of the variance in comprehension than passage-reading rate; (c) Does phrase-reading ability, as measured by phrase-level prosody, provide a mechanism for, or at least partially mediate, how passage-reading rate and syntactic awareness affect reading comprehension? Data were analyzed using hierarchical regression and mediation regression. All answers were affirmative suggesting that researchers studying adolescent struggling readers should investigate prosodic phrasing-reading ability as a tool for improving reading comprehension.

scholarly journals EXPRESS: Improving reading rate prediction with word length information: Evidence from Dutch

2021 ◽  
pp. 174702182110171
Author(s):  
Marc Brysbaert ◽  
Longjiao Sui ◽  
Wouter Duyck ◽  
Nicolas Dirix
Keyword(s):  
Word Length ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
Reading Rate ◽  
English Word ◽  
Length Effect ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Word Length Effect ◽  
Best Fitting ◽  
Dutch Language ◽  
Processing Effort

Previous research in English has suggested that reading rate predictions can be improved considerably by taking average word length into account. In the present study, we investigated whether the same regularity holds for Dutch. The Dutch language is very similar to English, but words are on average half a letter longer: 5.1 letters per word (in non-fiction) instead of 4.6. We collected reading rates of 62 participants reading 12 texts with varying word lengths, and examined which change in the English equation accounts for the Dutch findings. We observed that predictions were close to the best fitting curve as soon as the average English word length was replaced by the average Dutch word length. The equation predicts that Dutch texts with an average word length of 5.1 letters will be read at a rate of 238 word per minute (wpm). Texts with an average word length of 4.5 letter will be read at 270 wpm, and texts with an average word length of 6.0 letters will be read at a rate of 202 wpm. The findings are in line with the assumption that the longer words in Dutch do not slow down silent reading relative to English and that the word length effect observed in each language is due to word processing effort and not to low-level, visual factors.

Aphasic Performance on Visual Tracking Program

1972 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-346
Author(s):  
Elisabeth H. Wiig ◽  
Patricia H. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Visual Tracking ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Silent Reading ◽  
Reading Rate ◽  
Training Period ◽  
Perceptual Speed ◽  
Reading Deficits ◽  
Period 2 ◽  
Speed And Accuracy

The performance of 9 adult aphasics on a visual tracking program was investigated. The results indicated (1) significant increases in visual tracking rate over an 8-wk. training period, (2) significant increases in performance on tests of silent reading rate and over-all reading ability, and (3) no direct relationships between increases in visual tracking rate and silent reading rate or over-all reading ability. The significant gains observed in perceptual speed and accuracy, silent reading rate, and over-all reading ability indicated that the visual tracking program (Gaeke & Smith, 1962) may contribute significantly to the remediation of reading deficits in aphasia.

Beginning readers activate semantics from sub-word orthography

Cognition ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Nation ◽  
Joanne Cocksey
Keyword(s):  
Beginning Readers
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