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Topic:  What Is The Effect Of Reading Aloud To Children On A Comprehension Test Compared To Reading Silently


 

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Type of paper: Essay
Subject area: Education Theories
Academic level: College
Style: APA
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Author: Catina Ewing
Date submitted: 2008-11-21 22:17:24
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Tags: children, say, century, lesson, reading, comprehension, Learning, Kierkegaard, Erlbaum Associates, Vella, Duke University, Stahl, Duke Corporate, Desensitization, Sharrer
THE EFFECTS OF ORAL AND SILENT READING TO CHILDREN
Reading fluency is recognized as an essential requirement for reading
competency among students . It has been described that the capacity to
efficiently and effectively read is necessary in reading comprehension .
Recent surveys among 4th grade children revealed that less than half of
the students assessed showed difficulty in reading and comprehension (NRP , 2000 . It has thus been determined that children need to learn
methods in reading fluency , regardless of how intelligent a child is , or
else these students will remain reading at a slow pace and will keep on
experiencing hardship during reading sessions for the rest of their
lives .
Fluency in reading is described as the capacity to read with continuous
attention and focus , as well as simplicity and relaxation at tolerable
reading speed , mainly depending on the grade level of the student . More
importantly , fluency in reading is strongly associated with an excellent
grasp or comprehension of the reading material . It is therefore
interesting to determine whether oral reading results in a different
degree of reading fluency among children , from that of silent reading .
Such investigation may provide information that is essential for the
understanding of mechanisms for reading comprehension among young
students . The study will also provide specifics on the role of both
oral and silent reading in the development of a child 's reading
comprehension .
Oral reading involves reading with expression to the listener and , in
terms of grade school children , involves a teacher reading with
different pitches or tones , representing each character in the
storybook . Oral reading directly shows that the words that are printed
in books and other reading material are the major media of language and
communication among individuals . Though oral reading may be the best
method of telling stories to very young children , there are also
consequences that are related to this type of reading . Hence ,
educational institutions campaign for a balance between oral and silent
reading in order to generate a well-formed reading capability in the
developing child . Significant differences are observed between oral and
silent reading . In oral reading , the reader 's attention is focused on
the words that are printed in the material , instead of on understanding
the story or message of the material . In addition , oral reading is
generally associated with rapid eye or oculo-motor movements , more than
the observed amount of eye movement during silent reading (Solan , 2001 .
Such difference in the amount of eye movement results in a greater
susceptibility for children to experience wandering eyes during oral
reading . Such feature is not beneficial in any type of reading fluency
and is actually a disadvantage to a child (Orfield , 2001 .
Recently , it has been observed that students show a significant
decrease in binocular coordination and visual acuity when they perform
oral reading . This was not observed among students who followed a
silent reading exercise . Such difference in visual performance affects
the children 's reading comprehension because oral reading commonly
results in eye fixations which may be simply...

 

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