The Effect of Different Types of Substitution Miscues on Reading

Abstract

their substitution miscues affected their silent reading comprehension ability and their retelling ability following oral reading. It was found that while substitution miscues generally detracted from comprehension and retelling, not all substitutions detracted equally. When each substitution was coded into one of three categories: (a) corrections; (b) syntactically-semantically acceptable miscues; or (c) syntactically-semantically unacceptable miscues, it was found that corrected and acceptable miscues added to the understanding of the passage and only unacceptable miscues detracted from understanding. Further, it was found that the corrections and acceptable miscues were important common predictors of reading comprehension and retelling ability.