Introduction. The paper presents the results of a study on the influence of identifying the prose text rhythm on the development of fluent reading skills in children with the general speech underdevelopment. Materials and Methods. The methods employed in the study are analysis of scientific literature on the issues of formation of rhythm in the text and syntagmatic division of the text, the rhythmic analysis, and the statistical method. Results. Identification of a rhythmic structure in the text and division of the text into syntagmas help improve the technical aspect of reading and affect the development of fluent reading skills in children with the general speech underdevelopment. Conclusion. The findings suggest that it is essential to teach primary school children with the general speech underdevelopment to feel the text rhythm, identify it at the level of syntagmatic division, and find semantic dominants in the text to overcome the difficulties of developing fluent reading skills. The identification of rhythmic patterns in the text enables children both to upgrade their fluent reading skills and to understand better the meaning of what they read.
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