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Oral Reading Fluency Scores As An Indicator Of Reading Comprehension In Title I Schools, Carrie Barr Mott
Oral Reading Fluency Scores As An Indicator Of Reading Comprehension In Title I Schools, Carrie Barr Mott
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This study investigated the relationship between second grade students’ oral reading fluency scores as an indicator of reading comprehension achievement. A correlational design was used with a sample of 302 students from three South Carolina Title I schools. The students’ oral reading fluency (DORF) and overall, informational, and literary comprehension scores (MAP) were recorded. The researcher completed three bivariate linear regression analyses to determine if overall, informational, and literary comprehension could be predicted by students’ oral reading fluency rates. The researcher found that that there is a significant predictive relationship between the predictor and criterion variables. The statistical method used …