A Synthesis of Reading Prosody: Evaluating Phrasing and Syntax Interventions

Reading & Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties

Shhub, A., Jimenez, Z., et al. (2023).

Reading & Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 39(6), 530-547.

<div>This systematic review investigates the effects of reading prosody interventions for students at risk of reading disorders. Students were defined as at-risk readers based on identification by their classroom teachers or by performance on state or standardized reading measures.</div>

U.S. Department of Education



From 1985 to 2020

<div>Studies employing an experimental or quasi-experimental design with a minimum of two&nbsp;groups</div>

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<div>Students at risk of reading disorders improved reading prosody with:</div> <div> <ul> <li>multiple instructional strategies (ES = 0.03-0.82);</li> <li>modeled reading (ES = 0.46-0.75); and</li> <li>repeated reading with immediate feedback (ES = 0.52-1.53).</li> </ul> <div>Limitations to this review include the small number of included studies, small samples sizes of the included studies, and reduced quality of the included studies.</div> </div>