Understanding prosody and morphology in school-age children’s reading

We examined the unique contributions of prosodic awareness and morphological awareness to school-aged children’s word reading and reading comprehension. A total of 110 elementary-age children from Grades 4 and 5 participated in the current study. To measure prosodic awareness, children were asked to listen to and reflect on the stress patterns of multisyllabic words and identify the syllable of the word that contained the primary stress. Two...