HARBER JR. Syntactic complexity: A necessary ingredient in predicting readability. Toward an interactive-compensatory model of individual differences in the development of reading fluency. There was a main effect of Grade for decisions regarding consonants for both RT, Grade, F(2, 246) = 3.34, and error rates, Grade, F(2, 246) = 47.11, both p < .05, such that third graders took less time and made these decisions more accurately than first graders. Patterns of word and nonword processing in skilled and less-skilled readers. LaBerge and Samuelss (1974) now-classic article presenting an automaticity theory of reading argued that proficient word-recognition skills underlie fluent reading and adequate comprehension of text. STANOVICH KE. This view would also seem to state that the emergence of all aspects of automaticity, that is, fluent reading and autonomous reading, should be related to improved comprehension. A one-way ANOVA indicated a significant main effect of Grade for both naming time, F(2, 246) = 55.25, and error rates, F(2, 246) = 93.28, both p < .001, such that word decoding became quicker and more accurate for this set of words throughout the early elementary school years. Moreover, the benefits for reading fluency and comprehension might emerge even for very young readers whose word recognition during reading is better than that of their peers. In the pictureword version of the task, interference results when the reader cannot help but read the printed word while attempting to name the picture. Curriculum-based measurement of oral reading fluency: A confirmatory analysis of its relation to reading. 13, Nonword-reading speed is widely considered an indicator of the automaticity of essential phonics and blending skills and is usually highly correlated with word-recognition skills (Torgesen, Wagner, & Rashotte, 1999). These means formed the basic data for subsequent analyses (see Table 2). This component was indicated by interference scores obtained from the Stroop interference task. Instead, a simpler model treating text-reading fluency as merely another indicator of reading fluency skill provided a more appropriate account for our data. All children in general education classrooms participated with the exception of those currently receiving English-as-a-second-language instruction or those in self-contained classrooms for special education. In support of this, we did find that older children were quicker and more accurate in making doublet decisions and in discerning the correct spelling of a word. Standardized path weights and t-values can be found in Table 4. The special role of rimes in the description, use, and acquisition of English orthography. PAULA J. SCHWANENFLUGEL is a professor of educational psychology, psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science at the University of Georgia, where she teaches courses on child development, cognition, and psycholinguistics as applied to educational settings. However, LaBerge and, Descriptors: Word Recognition, Reading Instruction, Information Processing, Reading Fluency, Hapstak, Jo-Ann; Tracey, Diane H. Reading Horizons, 2007, This study examined the effects of assisted-repeated reading on four first-grade students whose reading ability varied (a special education student, a non-classified poor reader, an English Language Learner (ELL) student, and a general education student) to determine if an assisted-repeated reading intervention is differentially effective for, Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Fluency, Reading Improvement, Economically Disadvantaged, Roembke, Tanja C.; Hazeltine, Eliot; Reed, Deborah K.; McMurray, Bob Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019, Automaticity in word recognition has been hypothesized to be important in reading development (LaBerge & Samuels, 1974; Perfetti, 1985). For these, fits > .90 are considered acceptable and > .95 a good fit. Thus, childrens word-recognition skills may need to become yet more automatic to manage these more complex text features given the resources children have available. Students with disabilities need to learn how to read fluently and comprehend because reading is embedded in all academic areas. Most children continue to develop increased fluency in recognizing new words throughout third grade (as our data indicate). It was scored as a mechanical error if the microphone was not triggered by the childs voice or if it was triggered by an extraneous noise unrelated to the experiment (e.g., background noise, cough, sneeze, pre-articulation response such as tsk). The goals of this study were to (a) develop an empirically based model regarding the development of fluent and automatic reading in the early elementary school years and (b) determine whether fluent text-reading skills provided benefits for reading comprehension beyond those accounted for by fluent word decoding. Several studies have linked the development of Stroop interference to the development of reading skill. For tasks using the microphone, the accuracy of participants responses was recorded directly by the experimenter as incorrect if the item was not appropriately named. You can read the details below. At issue is exactly what additional benefit text-reading fluency provides beyond those accrued from skilled, fluent word recognition. We used several indicators for lack of model fit recommended by Kline (2005) and Schumacker and Lomax (1996). Another view, which we call the simple reading fluency model, states that reading fluency is a general skill that includes skills related to word-reading fluency as well as those related to text-reading fluency. PAAP KR, OGDEN WC. He received the 1985 National Reading Conference Award for Distinguished Research. Training teachers to attend to their students oral reading fluency. The SlideShare family just got bigger. To sum, the purposes of the present study were two. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies Thus, it is uncertain whether the extent to which young readers experience Stroop interference, for example, is relative to their reading fluency or to improved comprehension. The purposes of the current study were two. We included rapid object naming, because of its linkage in prior research to fluent word and text reading (Wolf & Katzir-Cohen, 2001). This is generally not the preferred fit index for various reasons and needs to be supplemented with other indicators of fit. Next, mean RT and standard deviations were calculated for every participant in the study. will also be available for a limited time. If the child made more than six errors in a row, the task was discontinued. This paradigm, however, may be confounded by retinal eccentricity effects and saccadic eye movements. Moreover, the path between autonomous reading interference and reading comprehension was significant for first graders (p < .05) but nonsignificant for the other grades, suggesting this aspect of automaticity is not important once basic automaticity is established. In general, fluent reading emerges in most children between first and third grade, when decoding skills are confirmed through practice (Kuhn & Stahl, 2003). Another view, which we call the simple reading fluency model, states that reading fluency is a general skill that includes skills related to word-reading fluency as well as those related to text-reading fluency.In this model, it is assumed that, early in the development of reading skills, word-recognition skills are the limiting factor in reading comprehension and that the cognitive resources . She can be contacted at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, 10 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1183, USA, ude.sregtur.icr@keinalem. Further, the key is to remember that fluency is an important bridge to comprehension but not the ultimate destination. STANOVICH KE. HASBROUCK JE, TINDAL G. Curriculum-based oral reading fluency norms for students in grades 2 through 5. We should note that this and the previous model are identical in most respects with the exception that the parameters linking text-reading fluency to reading comprehension and automatic reading to text-reading fluency are now eliminated. ; Vellutino et al., 1994) have taken issue with this means of assessing orthographic knowledge because it is possible for children to make these decisions on the basis of their prior experience reading the words, their spelling instruction, or the mere presence of more orthographic neighbors (i.e., rain, vain, stain, grain, brain) in their mental lexicon for one option over the other. For the WIATRC, there was also significant main effect of Grade, F (2, 246) = 80.21, p < .001. Instant access to millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts and more. Practice strengthens connections between word and letter patterns in long-term memory (e.g., LaBerge & Samuels, 1974), unitizes these letter patterns in memory so that they can be processed as whole units (Anderson, 1987), and proliferates the availability of instances of these word and letter unit representations in long-term memory with every encounter of them during reading (Logan, 1997). Children were given pairs of nonword letter strings having consonant or vowel doublets (e.g., holl versus hhol, stee versus staa) and asked to pick the item that looks more like a word should look. For each trial, a fixation point appeared for one second and was followed by the letter-string pair. Toward a Theory of Automatic Information Processing in Reading. LONG DL, OPPY BJ, SEELY M. Individual differences in readers sentence and text-level representations. We describe how these elements might fit together to produce good comprehension. This latent factor served both as a predictor of text-reading fluency and reading comprehension. The development of grammatical Sensitivity and its relationship to early reading achievement. Participants then named each picture stimulus aloud into the microphone. At all grades, there was significant variance in childrens reading comprehension not accounted for by fluency. However, at all grades, this relationship was nonsignificant (all p > .10). However, the LaBerge and Samuels model has had little to say about, Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Theories, Models, Comparative Analysis, Schrauben, Julie E. Reading Psychology, 2010, LaBerge and Samuels' (1974) theory of automatic information processing in reading offers a model that explains how and where the processing of information occurs and the degree to which processing of information occurs. Evidence supported a simple reading fluency model for the early elementary school years suggesting that fluent word and text reading operate together with autonomous reading to produce good comprehension. Subtypes of reading disability: Variability around a phonological core. He can be reached at the Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 5030, Las Vegas, NV, USA 89154-5030, USA, ude.adaven.vlnu@gssuarts. The point of view represented by this model is supported by studies finding that text-reading fluency accounts for additional variance in reading comprehension beyond that accounted for by word-reading fluency alone (Jenkins et al., 2003). We also investigate these same differences based on whether a student is a proficient or struggling reader. Effects of inference necessity and reading goal on childrens inferential generation. Given that Stroop interference seems to develop along with reading skill, what exactly becomes processed autonomously as reading becomes automatic? HIEBERT EH, FISHER CW. In our variant of this task, we presented children with the doublet task and asked them to make the doublet decision as quickly as they could. The items were selected from ones used by Cassar and Treiman such that there were 8 practice and 22 experimental items. It was the case, however, that the critical parameter that distinguished the two models (i.e., the link between text-reading rate and reading comprehension) varied little across grade level, was very close to zero, and was in the opposite direction in two of the three cases. (Contains 4 figures. As children get older, the demands of the texts themselves will become greater (Hiebert & Fisher, 2005). Further, it is unclear whether children can orchestrate automatic word and text reading in the pursuit of better reading comprehension at this stage of reading (Wolf & Katzir-Cohen, 2001). A number of word features seem to enter into the skilled reading of words in young children. Now customize the name of a clipboard to store your clips. Moreover, the skills that allow children to coordinate the benefits from fluent word and text reading may not yet be fully developed. Orthographic coding tasks are designed to assess childrens knowledge of visual spelling patterns in a way that distinguishes them from the simple retrieval of letter sounds. Assessing print exposure and orthographic processing skill in children: A quick measure of reading experience. 1. 8600 Rockville Pike COWIE R, DOUGLAS-COWIE E, WICHMANN A. Prosodic characteristics of skilled reading: Fluency and expressiveness in 810 year-old readers. Pick the one that you think is the real word by pushing the button that is on the same side as the real word. Do this as quickly as you can without making mistakes. There were 8 practice and 22 experimental trials. This volume offers a cross-section of modern literary theory and reflects on the history of thinking about literature as a, Descriptors: Literature, Literary Criticism, Aesthetic Education, Poetry, Turk-Browne, Nicholas B.; Pratt, Jay Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005, When testing between spotlight and activity distribution models of visual attention, D. LaBerge, R. L. Carlson, J. K. Williams, and B. G. Bunney (1997) used an experimental paradigm in which targets are embedded in 3 brief displays. RT and accuracy were recorded automatically. In: Parasuraman R, Davies R, editors. Thus, for the remainder of the analyses, we calculated Stroop interference directly for each participant by subtracting each ones mean RT for letter strings from their RT from nonwords, High-GPC + Low-Rime, and High-GPC + High-Rime words. Structural equation modeling in LISREL was conducted to examine the relations between the various measures potentially related to the development of fluency during the early elementary school years. Dysfluent beginning readers, by contrast, are identified by their excessively slow, laborious reading, which, in turn, impairs comprehension. MANIS FR, SEIDENBERG MS, DOI LM. Currently, there are a number of models depicting the development of various processes and skills relating to reading comprehension focusing primarily on lower-level processes. Overall, measurement model results indicated an unacceptable fit for first grade, 2 (100) = 256.71, p < .001; RMSEA = .11; GFI = .77; TLI = .80. These interference scores served as indexes of Stroop interference for the assessment of the role of autonomous reading in subsequent analyses. However, given the similarity between first- and third-grade data, it seemed more parsimonious to examine the same model for second grade. However, LaBerge and Measurement issues are not uncommon in research on orthographic processing. Presumably, once most children are fluent readers, factors other than reading fluency become important for good comprehension. The findings were analyzed in two phases. Finally, for each participant, means were recalculated for RT and error rates for each condition. A second potential issue for our conclusions is that our treatment of reading comprehension may not have been as complex as it needed to be in contrast with our treatment of reading fluency. 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In sum, between first and third grade in early elementary school, we found evidence of development on all tasks potentially related to fluent reading and automatic reading in young children. Relation of phonological and orthographic processing to early reading: Comparing two approaches to regression-based reading-level-match designs. The first of these are speed and accuracy, which seem to emerge simultaneously with practice (Logan, 1988). Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties. Nonword reading is often used as an indicator of childrens understanding of the relationships between letters, letter strings, and larger units such as rime units and speech sounds (Coltheart & Leahy, 1992; Treiman, Goswami, & Bruck, 1990). A third potential issue for our conclusions is that our measure of text-reading fluency may not have been as complex as it needed to be because we relied heavily on a single text-reading measure, the GORT3. Third graders accessed this knowledge more quickly than first graders and more accurately than children in the earlier grades (p < .01). To the extent that these processes are carried out automatically, children can gain additional resource benefits from text reading that they can use for comprehension. We think that our study helps better place the autonomy component within automaticity approaches to the development of reading skill. Automaticity is an important component of skilled reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Oral reading fluency as an indicator of reading competence: A theoretical, empirical, and historical analysis. David LaBERGE & S.Jay SAMUELS Structural equation modeling was used to examine the role of word-reading fluency, autonomous word reading, and text-reading fluency in benefiting reading comprehension skills. Ehri (1976) found that early and proficient readers showed larger interference, compared with late and less proficient readers. Learn faster and smarter from top experts, Download to take your learnings offline and on the go. The purpose of the single-wordnaming task was to provide an indicator of word-reading speed for a variety of word types while controlling for part of speech. ELIZABETH B. MEISINGER is a center manager for Youth & Family Services in the Dallas Independent School District. WOLF M, KATZIR-COHEN T. Reading fluency and its intervention. CUNNINGHAM AE, STANOVICH KE. Thus, in the development of reading, naming-speed problems result in the slower access to lexical and sublexical information that may impede the development of fluency in reading (Wolf et al., 2000, p. 401). It is important to note that there was a significant main effect of Stroop, F(5, 1230) = 23.57, p < .001, and a non-significant interaction between Stroop and Grade, F(10, 1230) = 1.39, p = .178, suggesting similar patterns of interference across grade. Relationship between the Wide Range Achievement Test 3 and the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test. Consequently, parameters that we did not find to be significantly significant or ill-fitting should not be dismissed completely out of hand. official website and that any information you provide is encrypted In particular, we were interested in determining how lexical and sublexical processes (word reading, nonword reading, orthographic processing, and rapid object naming) and reading autonomy (Stroop) operate together to produce the development of fluent text reading and good comprehension of text. First-, second-, and third-grade children completed a series of reading tasks targeting word and nonword processing, text reading, spelling knowledge, autonomous reading, and reading comprehension. Toward an instance theory of automatization. In sum, the current study has found support for a simple reading fluency view in automaticity accounts of the development of fluent and automatic reading during the early elementary school years. This study provides some clarification regarding how the elements of automaticity, word-reading fluency, text-reading fluency, and autonomous reading, operate together to produce good comprehension in the early elementary school years. The WIAT Reading Comprehension test was chosen for its consistency with what many teachers consider a key indicator of reading comprehension (i.e., the child can answer questions about the text; Byers, 1998; Richardson, Anders, Tidwell, & Lloyd, 1991), while avoiding the presence of false test floors that include items outside of the domain of reading comprehension (e.g., single-word decoding only, letter recognition) that are sometimes found in standardized reading comprehension tests for early elementary school. There was a nonsignificant Doublet Type Grade interaction, F(2, 246) = 2.91, p = .056, for RTs. In the current study, we assessed orthographic knowledge in two ways. Another characteristic of automatic skill is autonomy, or the ability to initiate a task without actively attending to it. The purpose of the doublet knowledge task was to provide an indicator of the degree to which knowledge of spelling patterns could be accessed automatically with increasing reading fluency. STANOVICH KE, NATHAN RG, ZOLMAN JE. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Click here to review the details. A 3 Grade 6 Stroop Condition ANOVA was carried out with Grade as a between-subjects factor and levels of Stroop (picture control, letter-string control, nonword labels, Low-GPC + High-Rime Labels, High-GPC + High-Rime Labels, High-GPC + Low-Rime Labels) as a within-subjects factor. We selected this test because of its good psychometric properties and because it seemed to cover a very basic ingredient of reading comprehension, that is, that children should be able to answer comprehension questions (both simple and more inferential) following the reading of a text. This assessment is perhaps the most widely used standardized assessment of reading fluency (Marlow & Edwards, 1998). The Stroop task presented digitized line drawings of objects provided in Cycowicz, Friedman, Rothstein, and Snodgrass (1997), each with a single conflicting word written in lowercase letters over the middle of it (e.g., a picture of a cat with the word rock superimposed on it). ANDERSON JR. Rime units are the part of a single-syllable word used in a rhyme (e.g., cat, that; Treiman, Mullennix, Bijeljac-Babic, & Richmond-Welty, 1995). YOUNG A, BOWERS PG. Do words really interfere in naming pictures? In: Thompson GB, Nicholson T, editors. SCHWANENFLUGEL PJ, AKIN CE. Stroop interference might be expected to be different depending on the size of the units used. GAYAN J, OLSON RK. A model of information processing in reading is described in which visual information is transformed through a series of processing stages involving visual, phonological and episodic memory systems until it is finally comprehended in the semantic system. Development of automatic and speeded reading of printed words. Solid arrows represent significant paths and dashed lines represent nonsignificant paths. Explaining the variance in reading Ability in terms of psychological processes: What have we learned? We found that large residuals (> 2.58) were consistently associated with the orthographic tasks at each grade level (5 of 5 for first grade, 7 of 10 for second grade, and 7 of 9 for third grade). University of Minnesota The task was modeled after the Cassar and Treiman (1997) Doublet Knowledge Task with the exception that the current task was timed to better determine automaticity of this knowledge. All factor loadings were significant at the p < .05 level for all relevant variables at each grade level. The raw score means and standard deviations for these subtests and their corresponding standard scores can be found in Table 1. A N H YBRID A PPROACH TO W ORD S ENSE D ISAMBIGUATION W ITH A ND W ITH Natural Language Processing in Alternative and Augmentative Communication, IRJET- Short-Text Semantic Similarity using Glove Word Embedding, Natural Language Processing and Language Learning, Domain Specific Terminology Extraction (ICICT 2006), Final Presentation Human Services Administration, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy RESEARCH TECHNIQUES IN ANIMAL NUTRITION.pptx, No public clipboards found for this slide. The definition implied here is consistent with the one widely cited in Kerlinger (1986): "A theory is a set of interrelated constructs (con-cepts), definitions, and propositions that present a. When the word was named, it disappeared from the screen, reaction time (RT) was recorded automatically, and the accuracy of the response was keyed in by the experimenter. Prediction of first-graders growth in oral reading fluency using kindergarten letter fluency. GOSWAMI U, ZIEGLER JC, DALTON L, SCHNEIDER W. Nonword reading across orthographies: How flexible is the choice of reading units? Autonomous reading interference was a significant predictor of reading comprehension in first grade, t(31) = 2.33, p < .05, but not in second or third grades, both p > .10. Translating research into practice: Preservice teachers beliefs about curriculum-based measurement. Predicting the future achievement of second graders with reading disabilities: Contributions of phonemic awareness, verbal memory, rapid naming, and IQ. Notes. One disappointment was our inability to discern the role of orthographic knowledge in the development of reading fluency and reading comprehension. BERNDT RS, REGGIA JA, MITCHUM CC. On a cautionary note, however, the sample sizes that we had available to us were somewhat smaller than ideal. Thus, it seemed appropriate to have this variable serve as an indicator of word-reading fluency. An examination of the paths leading to text-reading fluency as an outcome measure indicated a significant direct path between the latent word-readingfluency factor and text-reading fluency for all grades (p < .05). In this task, children are asked to decide which of two letter strings represents the correct spelling of a real word, such as rane versus rain. Decoding, semantic processing, and reading comprehension skill. A nonsignificant p > .05 is an acceptable fit. STANOVICH KE, NATHAN RG, VALA-ROSSI M. Developmental changes in the cognitive correlates of reading ability and the developmental lag hypothesis. The purpose of this quantitative causal comparative study was to determine if there is a significant difference in the oral, Descriptors: Grade 1, American Indian Students, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Gorsuch, Greta; Taguchi, Etsuo System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008, Reading in a foreign or second language is often a laborious process, often caused by underdeveloped word recognition skills, among other things, of second and foreign language readers. 'What is literature?' It is the core skill around which reading fluency is built and an important skill for predicting reading comprehension (Gough, 1996; Perfetti & Hogaboam, 1975; Schwanenflugel et al., 2004). Autonomy is indicated by the interference that the distracting print causes to the picture or color naming. We selected the assessment that we did after evaluating a number of other standardized assessments of early reading comprehension. Interference is determined by comparing the time it takes to complete the naming of the primary stimulus in a Stroop condition against the naming of a control having random letter strings or no conflicting print at all. Second, we assessed childrens speed of processing for a potentially wider range of word types by presenting them with a mixed variety of words in a timed computerized single-wordnaming task. For the TOWRE, there was a significant main effect of Grade on both the SWE subtest, F (2, 246) = 83.45, and the PDE subtest, F (2, 246) = 57.197, both p < .001. For subsequent analyses, mean RTs and error rates served as indicators of the development of spelling knowledge in these children. On the other hand, it is possible that other measures of expressiveness, such as those described by Cowie, Douglas-Cowie, and Wichmann (2002), may have accounted for significant variance above and beyond that accounted for by the GORT3. Similarly, Schadler and Thissen (1981) found that Stroop interference from words increased until childrens reading skills reached a fourth-grade reading level, after which interference declined (see also Golinkoff & Rosinski, 1976). GREGORY P. STRAUSS, University of NevadaLas Vegas, USA. We think this is where a developmental account of reading skill must take place. He can be contacted at Department of Educational Psychology & Instructional Technology, 325 Aderhold Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA, ten.htuoslleb@kabnesiw. The developmental lag hypothesis in reading: Longitudinal and matched reading-level comparisons. HHS Vulnerability Disclosure, Help These processes are dependent upon two criteria: accurate word decoding and automatic word recognition. HANNON B, DANEMAN M. A new tool for measuring and understanding individual differences in the component processes of reading comprehension. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Then, all mechanical errors (as defined above) and their corresponding RTs were eliminated from the data. The current study found no evidence for this mediating role of text-reading fluency. An official website of the United States government. 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The DCT model reinterprets and subsumes The LaBerge and Samuels (1974) model of the reading process which has served well to account for decoding behaviors and the processes that underlie them. KUHN MR, STAHL SA. Sources of individual differences in reading comprehension and reading fluency. Spearman-Brown coefficient analysis indicated a split-half reliability on this task of .87 for reaction times and .69 for accuracy rates. In this task children were provided with item pairs, one of which was a correctly spelled version of a word (e.g., rain) and the other of which was a phonologically identical but incorrectly spelled version of the word (e.g., rane). RT and accuracy was recorded automatically. These processes are dependent upon two criteria: accurate word decoding and automatic word recognition. This view is supported by studies showing that reading skill in young elementary school readers can be described as a single factor consisting of word-recognition skill, text-reading fluency, and reading comprehension (Shinn, Good, Knutson, Tilly, & Collins, 1992). Among them, fluent oral readers verbally segment word strings into larger syntactic groupings that may support comprehension (Dowhower, 1987; Kuhn & Stahl, 2003; Rasinski, 1990; Wolf & Katzir-Cohen, 2001; Young & Bowers, 1995). At minimum, additional cognitive resource benefits may derive from fluent text reading through the contextual activation of word meanings (Stanovich, 1980) and the automatic linguistic segmentation of text into major syntactic units (Young & Bowers, 1995). Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. STANDARDIZED PATH WEIGHTS, STANDARD ERRORS, AND T-VALUES FOR THE TEXT READING AS MEDIATOR MODEL. We had supposed that including timed orthographic tasks might provide us with evidence that orthographic knowledge is related to other reading fluency skills. There were 6 practice and 60 experimental stimuli. The correlation matrix for each grade level was used separately as input to LISREL 8.30 (Jreskog & Srbom, 1996, 1999) and is the focus of the analysis. (1992) suggests that this may be the case. The participants, Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Robson, Mark, Ed. ROBIN D. MORRIS, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. She can be contacted at Youth & Family Services, Dallas Independent School District, 2909 N. Buckner Drive, Dallas, TX 75228, USA, moc.liamtoh@regnisiemb. PENNINGTON BF, LEFLY DL, VAN ORDEN GC, BOOKMAN MO, SMITH SD. She has been engaged in research grants on fluency, assistive technology, and, most recently, as part of the Mid-Atlantic Collaborative for Applied Research in Education. Report of the subgroups: National Reading Panel. NATION K, SNOWLING MJ. LaBerge and Samuels' (1974) theory of automatic information processing in reading offers a model that explains how and where the processing of information occurs and the degree to which processing of information occurs. For all computerized RT tasks, to identify RTs and error rates that qualified for further analysis, the following steps were conducted on the raw data. BERGEN L, GRIMES T, POTTER D. How attention partitions itself during simultaneous message presentations. (1985; Olson et al., 1991). In what follows, we describe our rationale for including specific tasks and assessments as indicators of model features in tests of these larger models. In this phase, relations among variables thought to be potentially relevant to reading fluency according to variants of automaticity theory were determined using LISREL being as inclusive as possible with regard to the variables that might be considered to be relevant. MORRIS RD, STUEBING KK, FLETCHER JM, SHAY-WITZ S, LYON R, SHANKWEILER D, et al. Then, RT trials greater than 2 standard deviations above each participants mean and less than 200 ms were removed from the data as outliers. For reading, as automaticity develops for skills like word recognition, attentional resources become available for comprehension. The .gov means its official. The purpose of the Stroop task was to provide an indicator of the degree to which word reading was autonomous in the children. The proposed theoretical model was submitted to LISREL. 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