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Chan, Jessica S.; Wade-Woolley, Lesly; Heggie, Lindsay; Kirby, John R. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
We examined the unique contributions of prosodic awareness and morphological awareness to school-aged children's word reading and reading comprehension. A total of 110 elementary-age children from Grades 4 and 5 participated in the current study. To measure prosodic awareness, children were asked to listen to and reflect on the stress patterns of…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Individual Differences, Reading Comprehension
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Veenendaal, Nathalie J.; Groen, Margriet A.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
Text reading fluency--the ability to read quickly, accurately and with a natural intonation--has been proposed as a predictor of reading comprehension. In the current study, we examined the role of oral text reading fluency, defined as text reading rate and text reading prosody, as a contributor to reading comprehension outcomes in addition to…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
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Veenendaal, Nathalie J.; Groen, Margriet A.; Verhoeven, Ludo – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Background: Text reading prosody has been associated with reading comprehension. However, text reading prosody is a reading-dependent measure that relies heavily on decoding skills. Investigation of the contribution of speech prosody--which is independent from reading skills--in addition to text reading prosody, to reading comprehension could…
Descriptors: Role, Intonation, Reading Comprehension, Suprasegmentals