Measuring fluency of silent and aloud reading. A study on 3rd, 4th and 5th year of primary school
Francesca Grotta, Maria Cristina Ielmoni, Simona Miano, Giada Nidoli
This paper has different aims: firstly to measure fluency of silent reading (SRF) and oral reading (ORF), secondly to verify when SRF becomes faster than ORF. Finally this study analysis SRF and ORF in different types of reading tasks (sentence, pseudo sentence and a vertical list of words). The sample consists of 174 children attending 3rd, 4th and 5th classes of primary school: all children are native speaking Italian and without diagnosis. The children read on pc all three types of text both silently and orally. Results show that SRF and ORF change through different classes and types of text, particularly sentence reading is faster in both oral and silent reading. All results will be presented and discussed inside the paper.
Keywords
Oral reading, silent reading, dyslexia, reading fluency, primary school.