Repeated reading has been reported as an effective supplementary tool for increasing reading fluency and comprehension in slow but accurate readers. The present study investigated whether improved fluency and comprehension across different stories in repeated reading depends on the degree of word overlap among passages and/or whether repeated reading is more effective than an equivalent amount of nonrepetitive reading. Twelve, nonfluent, learning disabled students read 100 word, grade 2 level passages presented and timed by a computer under three different conditions. In all conditions, students read four passages daily with comprehension questions given orally at the end of each presentation. In Condition 1 and 2 (repeated reading) the same passage was read four times before proceeding to a new story in the next session. Stories in Condition 2 contained three times as many overlapping words as Condition 1. In Condition 3 (nonrepetitive reading) each of the four passages in a session was different. Each condition ran seven days and order of conditions was varied for the six groups. Slopes for speed, errors and comprehension based on scores obtained on the first reading in each session were used as the dependent measure with the intercepts as the covariate. ANCOVA with repeated measures (group by condition) indicated no significant effects among conditions for errors or comprehension. Reading conditions did have a significant effect on improvements in speed across sessions. Mean speed gains were greater in Condition 2 than in Condition 1, although there were no speed differences between Condition 1 and 3. Results suggest that over short periods of time, increases in reading speed with the repeated reading method do depend on the amount of shared words among stories, and that if stories have few shared words, repeated reading is not more effective for improving speed than an equivalent amount of nonrepetitive reading. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-09, Section: A, page: 2717. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75172 |
| Contributors | RASHOTTE, CAROL ALEXANDER., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 133 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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