scholarly journals Reading prosody unpacked: A longitudinal investigation of its dimensionality and relation with word reading and listening comprehension for children in primary grades.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young-Suk Grace Kim ◽  
Jamie M. Quinn ◽  
Yaacov Petscher
Keyword(s):  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Primary Grades ◽  
Longitudinal Investigation ◽  
Reading Prosody

Examining the Reading and Cognitive Profiles of Students With Significant Reading Comprehension Difficulties

2021 ◽  
pp. 073194872198997
Author(s):  
Philip Capin ◽  
Eunsoo Cho ◽  
Jeremy Miciak ◽  
Greg Roberts ◽  
Sharon Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Latent Profile Analysis ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Profile Analysis ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Cognitive Profiles ◽  
Cognitive Predictors ◽  
Cognitive Difficulties ◽  
Fourth Grade Students

This study investigated the word reading and listening comprehension difficulties of fourth-grade students with significant reading comprehension deficits and the cognitive difficulties that underlie these weaknesses. Latent profile analysis was used to classify a sample of fourth-grade students ( n = 446) who scored below the 16th percentile on a measure of reading comprehension into subgroups based on their performance in word reading (WR) and listening comprehension (LC). Three latent profiles emerged: (a) moderate deficits in both WR and LC of similar severity (91%), (b) severe deficit in WR paired with moderate LC deficit (5%), and (c) severe deficit in LC with moderate WR difficulties (4%). Analyses examining the associations between cognitive attributes and group membership indicated students with lower performance on cognitive predictors were more likely to be in a severe subgroup. Implications for educators targeting improved reading performance for upper elementary students with significant reading difficulties were discussed.

Acoustic Features of Oral Reading Prosody and the Relation With Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension in Taiwanese Children

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Wei-Lun Chung ◽  
Gavin M. Bidelman
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Pause Duration ◽  
Third Graders ◽  
Read Aloud ◽  
Acoustic Features ◽  
Fluency And Comprehension ◽  
Reading Prosody

Purpose: The study aimed to examine whether oral reading prosody—the use of acoustic features (e.g., pitch and duration variations) when reading passages aloud—predicts reading fluency and comprehension abilities. Method: We measured vocabulary, syntax, word reading, reading fluency (including rate and accuracy), reading comprehension (in Grades 3 and 4), and oral reading prosody in Taiwanese third-grade children ( N  = 109). In the oral reading prosody task, children were asked to read aloud a passage designed for third graders and then to answer forced-choice questions. Their oral reading prosody was measured through acoustic analyses including the number of pause intrusions, intersentential pause duration, phrase-final comma pause duration, child–adult pitch match, and sentence-final pitch change. Results: Analyses of variance revealed that children's number of pause intrusions differed as a function of word reading. After controlling for age, vocabulary and syntactic knowledge, and word reading, we found that different dimensions of oral reading prosody contributed to reading rate. In contrast, the number of pause intrusions, phrase-final comma pause duration, and child–adult pitch match predicted reading accuracy and comprehension. Conclusions: Oral reading prosody plays an important role in children's reading fluency and reading comprehension in tone languages like Mandarin. Specifically, children need to read texts prosodically as evidenced by fewer pause intrusions, shorter phrase-final comma pause duration, and closer child–adult pitch match, which are early predictive makers of reading fluency and comprehension.

Reading and Listening Comprehension in Individuals With Down Syndrome and Word Reading–Matched Typically Developing Children

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Alison Prahl ◽  
C. Melanie Schuele
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Reading Success ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Mean

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the reading comprehension and listening comprehension performance of English-speaking children with Down syndrome (DS) compared with word reading–matched typically developing (TD) children. Method: Participants included 19 individuals with DS ( M age = 17;2 [years;months], range: 11;1–22;9) and 19 word reading–matched TD children ( M age = 7;2, range: 6;6–8;1). Participants completed three norm-referenced measures of reading comprehension and three norm-referenced measures of listening comprehension. Dependent variables were raw scores on each measure, with the exception of scaled scores on one reading comprehension measure. Results: Independent-samples t tests with Bonferroni-adjusted alpha levels of .008 revealed a significant between-groups difference for two of three reading comprehension measures. The mean raw scores were lower for the DS group than the TD group, with large effect sizes. Independent-samples t tests with Bonferroni-adjusted alpha levels of .008 revealed a significant between-groups difference for three of three listening comprehension measures. The mean raw scores on the three measures were lower for the DS group than the TD group, with large effect sizes. Conclusions: The DS group, despite being matched on word reading to the TD group, demonstrated reduced reading comprehension skills as compared with the TD group. Thus, as individuals with DS acquire word reading skills, it appears that they are unable to translate word reading success to achieve reading comprehension at the expected level (i.e., as indexed by typical readers). The between-groups differences in listening comprehension suggest that deficits in listening comprehension likely are a barrier to reading comprehension proficiency for children with DS. Listening comprehension may be a malleable factor that can be targeted to improve reading comprehension outcomes for individuals with DS.

scholarly journals Word Decoding Abilities of 1st Graders with Developmental Dyslexia Considering Reading Severity and Word and Syllable Structure

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-600
Author(s):  
Haerim Yu ◽  
Hyoeun Won ◽  
Soyeong Pae
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
Developmental Dyslexia ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Syllable Structure ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Word Decoding ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
Lexical Route ◽  
Severe Group

Objectives: This study investigated word decoding abilities of 1st graders with Developmental dyslexia according to the level of decoding difficulty, meaning availability, word and syllable structure.Methods: Twenty Korean 1st graders with developmental dyslexia participated in 40 word-reading tasks individually. All of them had severe decoding difficulties, even with normal listening comprehension (KORLA; Pae et al., 2015) and intelligence (K-CTONI-2; Park, 2014). The group differences by decoding difficulties were compared considering the meaning of words, the number of syllable-final graphemes, and the position of each grapheme in a syllable.Results: Both the severe and less-severe group in Korean word-decoding difficulties revealed the gaps between word reading and nonword reading. Both groups had decoding difficulties when a word had syllable-final graphemes, while the severe group had even lower performances in word readings with 2 syllable-final graphemes. Both groups showed similar performances in reading syllable-initial graphemes while the severe group had lower performances both in reading syllable-medial vowel graphemes and syllable-final consonant graphemes compared to the less-severe group.Conclusion: Korean 1st graders with developmental dyslexia seemed to be in urgent need of decoding support considering word and syllable structure. Triggering the non-lexical route with non-words considering the grain size of syllable-medial vowel graphemes and syllable-final graphemes would facilitate word decoding abilities of severely dyslexic Korean children.

scholarly journals How Initial Word Reading and Language Skills Affect Reading Comprehension Outcomes for Students With Reading Difficulties

2018 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Vaughn ◽  
Greg Roberts ◽  
Philip Capin ◽  
Jeremy Miciak ◽  
Eunsoo Cho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Reading Difficulties ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Response To Instruction ◽  
Literacy Outcomes ◽  
School Year ◽  
Intensive Reading

This study examined how differences in listening comprehension and word reading at the beginning of the school year influence changes in reading comprehension for English learners (ELs) with significant reading difficulties compared to non-ELs with significant reading difficulties. The study investigated heterogeneity in response to instruction among 400 struggling readers in fourth grade ( n = 183 for non-EL; n = 217 for EL) who received an intensive reading intervention. At pretest, word reading, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension were measured, and at posttest, reading comprehension was measured again. Results from moderated multiple regression analyses showed a significant three-way interaction such that reading comprehension at posttest was higher for ELs than non-ELs with similar levels of low word reading but relatively higher levels of listening comprehension. However, non-ELs outperformed ELs with similar levels of relatively high word reading and average to high listening comprehension. The findings suggest that pre-intervention skill profiles may need to be interpreted differently for ELs and non-ELs with significant reading difficulties in relation to language and literacy outcomes.

scholarly journals PERAN MEMBACA AWAL TERHADAP PEMAHAMAN BACAAN PADA SISWA KELAS IV SEKOLAH DASAR

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 333
Author(s):  
Amalia Novita Retaminingrum ◽  
Sri Tiatri ◽  
Soemiarti Patmonodewo
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Oral Reading Fluency ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Reading Assessment ◽  
Early Reading ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Early Grade

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji peran kelancaran membaca awal terhadap pemahaman bacaan. Partisipan adalah 150 siswa kelas empat. Partisipan diberi satu set asesmen yang mencakup beberapa komponen kelancaran membaca awal dan pengukuran atas pemahaman bacaan  fiksi dan non fiksi. Kelancaran membaca awal diukur dengan Early Grade Reading Assessment yang mengukur letter name identification, segmentation (phoneme or syllables), non word reading, oral reading fluency, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, vocabulary, dan dictation.  Pemahaman bacaan fiksi dan non fiksi diukur melalui tes yang dikembangkan berdasarkan Curriculum Based Assessment dari Kurikulum 2013 Indonesia. Analisis regresi dilakukan pada penelitian ini, dan hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada dua komponen kelancaran membaca awal yang berhubungan dengan pemahaman bacaan. The goal of this study was to examine the role of early reading fluency in reading comprehension. Participants were 150 fourth-grade children. They were given an assessment that included multiple components of early reading fluency, and a fiction and non fiction text to measure their reading comprehension. For early reading fluency, this study used Early Grade Reading Assessment which measures of letter name identification, segmentation (phoneme or syllables), non word reading, oral reading fluency, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, vocabulary, and dictation. For fiction and non-fiction reading comprehension, this study use Curriculum Based Assessment from 2013 Indonesian Curriculum. Regression analyses were undertaken, the results showed that there are two component of early reading fluency which related to reading comprehension. 

Factors that influence comprehension of connectives among language minority children from Spanish-speaking backgrounds

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMY C. CROSSON ◽  
NONIE K. LESAUX ◽  
MARIA MARTINIELLO
Keyword(s):  
Oral Language ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Language Minority ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Minority Children ◽  
Text Cohesion ◽  
Language Competencies

ABSTRACTThis study explores factors influencing the degree to which language minority (LM) children from Spanish-dominant homes understand how connectives, such as in contrast and because, signal relationships between text propositions. Standardized tasks of vocabulary, listening comprehension, word reading, and a researcher-designed text cohesion task were administered to 90 fourth-grade LM students. Understanding of connectives was influenced by vocabulary knowledge and listening comprehension. The degree of challenge that specific connectives posed to LM students was predicted by the difficulty that connectives presented as vocabulary items and also by the type of semantic relationship between clauses they signaled. The findings point to factors that may present sources of difficulty underlying reading comprehension, in particular the critical role of oral language competencies.

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