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THE GENESIS OF SILENT READING PROSODY: AN EXPLORATION OF FOUR PROSODIC READERS

Corra, Marissa D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143476895

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2006, Master of Education (MEd), Bowling Green State University, Reading.
Most research and instruction ignores the hallmark of fluency achievement: prosody (Schwanenflugel, Hamilton, Kuhn, Wisenbaker, & Stahl, 2004). Prosody is the component of fluency that describes the ability to read with appropriate phrasing, intonation, and expression (Allington, 1983; Dowhower, 1991). If prosody has not been mastered, it is unlikely that students will completely understand what is being read (Kuhn & Stahl, 2003; Rasinski, 2004). Little research has been done with regard to how and when students acquire oral reading prosody, how it is most effectively taught, and finally, how many students actually obtain oral prosody. In this study, 28 third-, fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students participated in an oral prosody screening, the goal of which was to select four students to participate further in the study. Four students who scored a high level of oral prosody were selected to participate in both a more comprehensive oral prosody assessment as well as a silent reading prosody interview. The oral prosody screening and the oral prosody assessment were both based on an oral prosody scale created by Zutell and Rasinski (1991). One student from each grade was selected and participated in a more complete oral prosody assessment and a silent reading prosody interview. Based on the results of the interviews, each of the four students demonstrated the presence of silent reading prosody by describing silent reading prosodic components such as hearing character voices and sounds while reading silently. While all four of the students demonstrated the presence of silent reading prosody, their specific experiences were unique, although they did often show threads of similarity.
Cindy Hendricks (Advisor)
161 p.
prosody; silent reading prosody; oral reading prosody; reading

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  • Corra, M. D. (2006). THE GENESIS OF SILENT READING PROSODY: AN EXPLORATION OF FOUR PROSODIC READERS [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143476895

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Corra, Marissa. THE GENESIS OF SILENT READING PROSODY: AN EXPLORATION OF FOUR PROSODIC READERS. 2006. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143476895.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Corra, Marissa. "THE GENESIS OF SILENT READING PROSODY: AN EXPLORATION OF FOUR PROSODIC READERS." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143476895

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