Elaine, I have a question about your statement below. I'm tutoring a little boy (LD, ADHD) who reads with fair fluency but absolutely no prosody. It's robot reading with no expression, no stopping for periods, commas, etc. Could that be having an effect on his comprehension (which is suffering when it comes to details and higher-level stuff such as inferring)? I'm thinking I read that somewhere, and it makes sense that without expression the story is just a list of words to be gotten through. He comprehends even worse on the sections he reads silently, so I'm thinking he's still "robot reading" in his head also. Heather Wall/ 3rd grade/ Georgia NBCT 2005 Literacy: Reading - Language Arts
----- Original Message ---- From: elaine garan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2007 10:10:37 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Repeated Readings for Fluency - Question for Tim Beyond beginning reading, beyond first grade, there is a zero correlation between fluency and comprehension. In fact, fluency (in terms of a focus on wpm and even prosody) can actually interfere with comprehension because the reader is thinking about that performance aspect instead of meaning, especially if he or she is being timed. . _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
