Dr. T. Overstreet at AICER
The Effects of Prosody Instruction on Reading Fluency and Comprehension among Third-Grade Sudents
Agenda
Wed, November 5, 2014 @ 05:30 pm - 07:00 pm
Wed, November 5, 2014 @ 05:30 pm - 07:00 pm
Bell Hall, Room 180
Andrews International Center for Educational Research (AICER) invites students and faculty to attend a research symposium on Wednesday, November 5, at 5:30 p.m.
Presenter: Dr. Tammy Overstreet, Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction Program Director, Andrews University
Title: The Effect of Prosody Instruction on Reading Fluency and Comprehension among Third-Grade Students
Many students are failing to become proficient readers with current methods used in American schools. Students often make improvements in two fluency dimensions, rate and accuracy, but these improvements have not consistently correlated to improvements in reading comprehension. The automaticity plus prosody (APP) model was developed by this researcher from Topping’s deep processing fluency model to explain why teaching and assessing the multiple dimensions of fluency (rate, accuracy, and prosody) improve comprehension. The purpose of this study was to compare students who received a treatment of only repeated reading and self-graphing with students who received a treatment of repeated reading, self-graphing, and an instructional focus of prosody.
Face-to-face participants meet in Bell Hall 180.
Online participants to login as "Guest" at https://andrews.adobeconnect.com/_a877709416/research/ or http://www.andrews.edu/sed/aicer/researchwebinars/ whether or not they are registered Andrews students.
Sponsors: Andrews International Center for Educational Research
Contact:
Josephine Katenga
katenga@andrews.edu
269 471 6248
Contact:
Josephine Katenga
katenga@andrews.edu
269 471 6248
