Katzir-Kim-2006
Authors: Tami Katzir, Youngsuk Kim, Maryanne Wolf, Beth O’Brien, Becky Kennedy, Maureen Lovett & Robin Morris.
Article: Reading fluency: The whole is more than the parts..
Publication: Annals of Dyslexia (Springer). 56, pages 51–82 2006 | DOI: 10.1007/s11881-006-0003-5
Abstract
This study examined the relative contributions of phonological awareness, orthographic pattern recognition, and rapid letter naming to fluent word and connected-text reading within a dyslexic sample of 123 children in second and third grades. Participants were assessed on a variety of fluency measures and reading subskills. Correlations and hierarchical multiple regression analyses were carried out to explore these relationships. The results demonstrate that phonological awareness, rapid letter naming, and orthographic pattern recognition contribute to word-reading skills. Furthermore, rapid naming, orthographic pattern recognition, and word reading fluency moderately predict different dimensions of connected-text reading (i.e., rate, accuracy, and comprehension) whereas phonological awareness contributes only to the comprehension dimension of connected-text reading. The findings support the multidimensional nature of fluency in which the whole is more than its parts.
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The findings from this study suggest that in reading fluency, the whole is more than its parts. Although word-level reading was moderately to strongly predicted by lower-level processes, a variety of linguistic and reading measures only partially predicted accurate, fluent, and meaningful connected-text reading.
Katzir, T., Kim, Y., Wolf, M. et al. Reading fluency: The whole is more than the parts. Ann. of Dyslexia 56, 51–82 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-006-0003-5
