Repeated Readings: Process Benefits for Good and Poor Readers

Repeated reading of the same passage has been advocated as a remedial technique for children with reading problems. The present study explored changes in the underlying processes as fluency improved across readings. The experiment used an error-detection paradigm to examine changes in how thoroughly the print and the message were analyzed as reading became more rapid across repeated readings. Good and poor readers in Grades 3, 4, and 5 read …