The Effects of Student and Text Characteristics on the Oral Reading Fluency of Middle-Grade Students.

ABSTRACT: We evaluated the effects of student characteristics (sight word reading efficiency, phonological decoding, verbal knowledge, level of reading ability, grade, gender) and text features (passage difficulty, length, genre, and language and discourse attributes) on the oral reading fluency of a sample of middle-school students in Grades 6-8 (N = 1,794). Students who were struggling (n = 704) and typically developing readers (n = 1,028) were randomly assigned to read five 1-min passages from each of 5 Lexile bands (within student range of 550 Lexiles). A series of multilevel analyses showed that student and text characteristics contributed uniquely to oral reading fluency rates. Student characteristics involving sight word reading efficiency and level of decoding ability ac

SUBMITTER: Barth AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3932062 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature