Sometimes I think that it is an issue of pronunciation vs. comprehension, even at the word level. There are words that are in our reading vocabulary that are unfamiliar to us auditorily. I think this is especially noticable among students from rural or isolated backgrounds that are very wide readers. Have you ever met anyone like this? Someone who uses absolutely the right word, but mispronounces it speaking? I know I attended a state college and saw this a lot in students from very sparsely populated areas of the state. If I were such a reader, I might let the pronunciation issue slow me down whereas if I was reading silently, I could quickly accept my inferred meaning for the word and pretty much get over the pronunciation thing. I do this all the time with names and once in a while with other words.
Lori On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:25 , RASINSKI, TIMOTHY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >Why would we expect that a reader who struggles over decoding a word orally to >do significantly better rin decoding the same word while reading silently? They might do slightly better because of context and other variables; howeve, relative to good readers, there would be little difference. > > > >I know for myself that the words I have trouble with reading orally are still >the same words I have trouble reading silently. > > > >Timothy Rasinski > >404 White Hall > >Kent State University > >Kent, OH 44242 > >330-672-0649 > >Cell -- 330-962-6251 > >FAX 330-672-2025 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >informational website: www.timrasinski.com > >professional development DVD: http://www.roadtocomprehension.com/ >http://www.roadtocomprehension.com/> > > > >________________________________ > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Renee > >Sent: Mon 7/9/2007 10:40 AM > >To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group > >Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Repeated Readings for Fluency - Question for Tim > > > > > > > >On Jul 9, 2007, at 3:27 AM, RASINSKI, TIMOTHY wrote: > > > >> Elisa: It very likely is slow and halting during silent reading -- > >> readers who read in a slow an labored way orally, tend to read in a > >> very similar way when reading silently. > > > >How can we possibly know this? > >Renee > > > >"Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself." > >~ Robert A. Heinlein > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Mosaic mailing list > >[email protected] > >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. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] 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.
