journal of literacy research 1985 taft 163 79
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Journal of Reading Behavior
1985, VolumeXVII No. 2
THE EFFECTS OF PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
N D OR L RE DING CCUR CY
ON MISCUES ND COMPREHENSION
Mary Lynn Taft and Lauren Leslie
M arquette University, School of Education,
Milwaukee, W I53233
Abstract
The effects of prior knowledge (high, low) and oral reading accuracy (95% + ,
90-94% ) on miscues and comprehension were examined by requiring 57 third-
grade average readers to read an expository passage orally. The children had
either high prior knowledge of the topic, defined as completing a classroom
instructional unit and verified by a free-association test, or low prior
knowledge. Children with high prior knowledge made fewer miscues which
resulted in meaning loss (p < .05), and their miscues were less graphically
similar to the text word
(p