Abstract
Relate oral reading fluency performance to reading comprehension in students of the Elementary School. The study included 97 students, distributed in three groups: Group I (GI): composed by 32 students from 3rd grade level; Group II (GII): composed by 28 students from 4th grade level and Group III (GIII): composed by 37 students from 5th grade level. The oral reading of a text was recorded and analyzed observing the pauses made by the students, auditory perceived by judges, speed reading measured by the number of words correctly read and reading comprehension assessment. Students of Group I and III presented relation between reading comprehension and number of words correctly read per minute, which did not occur with the students from Group II. The GII and GIII showed negative relation, not significant between the number of pauses and reading comprehension. The data showed that oral reading rate is related to the reading comprehension, however, the number of pauses showed no significant differences between reading comprehension for most grade level analyzed.
Highlights
Fluency has called the attention of researchers all over the world for the effect it can cause at the end of school year in its global performance
The data showed that oral reading rate is related to the reading comprehension, the number of pauses showed no significant differences between reading comprehension for most grade level analyzed
Chart 1 presents the description of the average and standard deviation for Group I (GI), Group II (GII) and Group III (GIII) of the number of words correctly read per minute, number of mistakes in the comprehension test and number of pauses performed during the students’ reading
Summary
Fluency has called the attention of researchers all over the world for the effect it can cause at the end of school year in its global performance. The same can be found for Brazilian students of the 9th grade of Elementary School II, who, with the highest grades (better academic performance), read more words per minute, varying the speed according to the text and to the way of reading - oral and in silence[13] In another Brazilian study performed with students of the 1st grade of Elementary School I, the results suggested that the variations at reading fluency play an important role at reading comprehension since the beginning of learning of reading. This study has as objective to relate the performance at oral reading fluency to the reading comprehension of students of Elementary School I
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