The Relationship Between Second And Third Grade Students Reading Fluency And Grade Level Reading Comprehension

Download or read book The Relationship Between Second and Third Grade Students' Reading Fluency and Grade-level Reading Comprehension written by Katherine Lindsey Swope and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between reading fluency and reading comprehension by measuring both constructs using grade-level academic text, and to determine the relationship between reading fluency and reading comprehension when reading fluency performance was examined at the quantile level. Six hundred and five second and third grade students in a Mountain West state participated in this study and were assessed on their reading fluency and reading comprehension abilities using the Narrative Language Measures: Reading (NLM:R), a subtest of the CUBED, which measures reading fluency through a timed reading task and reading comprehension through a narrative retell task. This assessment is based on grade-level, academic text which is aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) (Petersen & Spencer, 2016). As prior research has demonstrated (Reese, Suggate, Long & Schaughency, 2010; Shapiro, Fritschmann, Thomas, Hughes, & McDougal, 2014), this study found a weak relationship between reading fluency and reading comprehension when reading comprehension was assessed using a narrative retell task. When the relationship between reading fluency and reading comprehension was examined at every 10th percentile of fluency performance, reading fluency and reading comprehension demonstrated a tenuous relationship. The differences between reading comprehension performance at the 10th percentile of reading fluency and all other percentiles were not significant. The results of this study suggest that curriculum based measures for oral reading (CBM-Rs) may not be an appropriate indirect measure for grade-level reading comprehension.