Silent versus oral reading with one hundred sixth-grade children.

A Historical View of Content Area Reading Instruction

“…He found students read more material and recalled more points during silent reading as compared to their oral reading. Mead (1915) observed similar results when he focused on the same two aspects (amount of material read and number of points recalled) Downloaded by [University of Sydney] at 06:34 03 January 2015 comparing silent and oral reading of sixth grade students. He questioned the importance of oral reading and felt the act of articulating every word aloud may actually slow the reader's speed even in silent reading.…”

“…In the early 1900's, researchers were debating the issue of oral reading versus silent reading (Pintner, 1913;Mead, 1915;Pintner & Gilliland, 1916;Thorndike, 1917;Judd & Buswell, 1922;Good, 1925). Pintner (1913) studied the oral and silent reading of fourth grade students.…”

An investigation of silent versus aloud reading comprehension of elementary students using Maze assessment procedures

“…Previous research designed to answer this question has provided mixed results (Fuchs et al, 1988;Juel & Holmes, 1981;McCallum, Sharp, Bell, & George, 2004). Some research studies have shown that students comprehend significantly more information when they read silently than they do when they read aloud (Jones & Lockhart, 1919;Mead, 1915Mead, , 1917Pinter, 1913). Other studies report findings indicating that students comprehend significantly more when they read aloud compared to when they read silently (Collins, 1961;Duffy & Durrell, 1935-36;Hale et al, 2007;Rowell, 1976).…”

Experiments on learning in school situations.

“…Actually, he alleges, his tests covered the more important ideas. (88,148,173) Yoakam ( 254) also compared the effectiveness of a single reading with the effectiveness of two consecutive readings. His subjects improved their scores comparatively little by the second reading.…”