Not exact matches
Amos Wilder adds a piece to our understanding of what these
performances might have been like: When we picture to ourselves the early Christian narrators we should make full allowance for animated and expressive narration...
oral speech also was less inhibited than today... when we think of the early church meetings and testimonies and narrations we are probably well guided if we think of the way in which Vachael Lindsay
read or of the appropriate
readings of James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones (56).
Like all texts prepared for public
reading, the letter achieves its entelechy in
oral performance.
The four elements posit LD as: 1) heterogeneous; 2) intrinsic or neurobiological; 3) marked by a significant discrepancy between learning potential (measured intelligence) and academic
performance (measured skills in
reading, writing, mathematics, and
oral language); and 4) not caused by cultural, educational, environmental, or economic factors or by other disabilities (such as mental deficiency, visual or hearing impairments, or emotional disturbance).
Use the scripts for
performance and to practice and develop
oral and
reading skills.
Behaviorally, training improved
oral language and
reading performance.
Because students rehearse with the goal of giving an expressive
oral performance, this form of repeated
reading improves both word recognition automaticity and
reading prosody, which are critical components of fluency.
For example, Johnson et al. (in press) found that including a vocabulary assessment with an
oral reading fluency (ORF) assessment significantly increased classification accuracy when predicting
performance on a third grade state assessment.
Efficiently assess and automatically record individual students»
reading performance using the
oral reading fluency assessment Benchmark Assessor Live.
Because
oral reading fluency has been shown to be a reliable indicator of overall
reading performance, national norms for
reading fluency can provide a valuable tool for making key decisions about students.
Children's
oral reading was assessed according to their
performance on two of the graded
reading passages.
Currently she works as an interviewer on the Smithsonian Visual Art and the AIDS epidemic
oral history project and co-curates the
reading and
performance series Adult Contemporary, which released its first book of art and literature last fall.
Effects of fluency,
oral language, and executive function on
reading comprehension
performance