READING FLUENCY THROUGH READER’S THEATER.

Reading Fluency: Critical Issues for Struggling Readers

Connected Text Reading and Differences in Text Reading Fluency in Adult Readers

The process of connected text reading has received very little attention in contemporary cognitive psychology. This lack of attention is in parts due to a research tradition that emphasizes the role of basic lexical constituents, which can be studied in isolated words or sentences. However, this lack of attention is in parts also due to the lack of statistical analysis techniques, which accommo...

Gaze Shifts between Text and Illustrations are Negatively Related to Reading Fluency in Beginning Readers

Learning to read is often considered the most important skill taught in school because reading is a gateway to other learning. Many children struggle to acquire this fundamental skill. Suboptimal design of books for beginning readers may contribute to the difficulties children experience as close proximity between text and illustrations could promote attentional competition hampering literacy s...

Filtered Text and Direction Discrimination Training Improved Reading Fluency for Both Dyslexic and Normal Readers

Optometry & Vision Development Abstract Background: Over 67% of children in 4th grade are reading below grade level, which means they are twice as likely to drop out of school. Previous research has found that children who are slow readers have reduced contrast sensitivity for detecting the direction of movement, and that improving their movement contrast sensitivity by training with sinusoidal...

Examining reading fluency in a foreign language: Effects of text segmentation on L2 readers

Grouping words into meaningful chunks is a fundamental process for fluent reading. The present study is an attempt to understand the relationship between chunking and second language (L2) reading fluency. The effects of text segmentation on comprehension, rate, and regression in L2 reading were investigated using a self-paced reading task in a moving-window condition. The participants were inte...