This study was conducted to investigate the children''s reading miscue characteristics at low-income family. The subjects were 83 first grade children(41 low- and 42 middle-income children) from 3 elementary schools and 11 welfare centers. Basic Acade...
This study was conducted to investigate the children''s reading miscue characteristics at low-income family. The subjects were 83 first grade children(41 low- and 42 middle-income children) from 3 elementary schools and 11 welfare centers. Basic Academy Skills Assessment for reading(Kim, 2000) were used to measure the children''s reading fluency and comprehension. Children''s reading miscues were analyzed during picture-book reading, such as mispronunciation, substitution, repetition, ommission, insertion, reversal, self-correction and hesitations for more than 3 seconds. The collected data were analyzed by t-test and Pearson''s correlations.$$a$$aThe results of this study were as follows:$$a$$aFirst, the score of children''s reading fluency and comprehension at low-income family were generally lower than the cost of middle-income children.$$a$$aSecond, there were significant differences in children''s reading miscues between two groups, in terms of mispronunciation, substitution, repetition, ommission, insertion and hesitations for more than 3 seconds.$$a$$aThird, the lower level of reading comprehension low-income children were, the more mispronunciation, hesitations for more than 3 seconds they did. The lower level of reading fluency low-income children were, the more self-correction they did. The lower level of reading fluency middle-income children were, the more repetition they did.$$a$$a