David D. Paige|Timothy V. Rasinski|Theresa Magpuri?Lavell|Grant Smith
Interpreting the Relationships Among Prosody, Automaticity, Accuracy, and Silent Reading Comprehension in Secondary Students
Bellarmine University|Kent State University|Bellarmine University|Bellarmine University
although identified critical component proficient reading primary grades reading fluency word recognition accuracy automaticity prosody often viewed less important beyond early stages reading acquisition present study 108 ninthgrade students assessed explore relationships among word recognition accuracy automaticity prosody vocabulary silent reading comprehension results found large correlations among variables regression analysis revealed accuracy prosody vocabulary explained 501 527 variance silent reading comprehension note findings word recognition automaticity contribute silent reading comprehension although prosody found act partial mediator automaticity comprehension accuracy automaticity prosody found form highly reliable scale reflecting oral reading fluency findings contribute growing body evidence suggesting secondary students exhibiting appropriate prosody experience advantages comprehension processing tandem theory reading introduced explain relationship automaticity comprehension