Transcript Fluency Quotes

What is Fluency?
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What is Fluency?
 Speed + Accuracy = Fluency
 Reading quickly and in a meaningful
way (prosody)
 Decoding and comprehending
simultaneously
 Freedom from word identification
problems
 Fluency is derived from the Latin word
fluens which means “to flow”
 Smooth and effortless reading
Indicators of Fluency
 Reading with expression
 Recall/Retelling
 Words per minute
Some Factors that Inhibit
Fluency...
 Unfamiliarity with text
 Limited vocabulary
 Difficulty with syntax
 Decoding breakdown
Keep in Mind…
 All three areas of reading fluency are
intertwined
 Working on one area will most likely
improve the others
 Attention to a single aspect of fluent
reading such as rate does not preclude
teaching attention to prosody and
meaning.
Improving Prosody
 Reading with
recordings
 Partner reading
 Reader’s Theatre
Reading Decodable Text and
Phrases
 The bad cat
 The bad cat sat.
 The mad cat sat.
 The mad cat’s hat
 The sad cat’s black hat
 The black cat’s sad dad
To develop fluency, students need to:
 Develop a high level of accuracy in word
recognition
 Maintain a rate of reading brisk enough to
facilitate comprehension
 Use phrasing and expression so that
oral reading sounds like speech
 Transform deliberate strategies for word
recognition and comprehension into
automatic skills
The challenge of continuing growth in fluency
becomes even greater after third grade
•4th, 5th, and 6th graders encounter about
10,000 words they have never seen before in
print during a year’s worth of reading
Furthermore, each of these “new” words
occurs only about 10 times in a year’s worth
of reading
Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to correctly
guess the identity of these “new words” just
from the context of the passage
Closing the gap in middle and high school: the
fundamental challenge
Each year, the demands of text become more
challenging
New words appear for the first time
Sentences become longer and more complex
Correct interpretation requires a broader
range of knowledge
The length of what you are expected to read
increases
How do you “close the gap” when the requirements
for “grade level proficiency” increase every year?
If they are to continue growing in their
ability to fluently read passages at higher
levels of difficulty, children must add
large numbers of words to their “sight
vocabulary” every year.
Thus, its important to have reliable
decoding strategies to improve the
accuracy with which “new” words are
identified when they are first encountered
in text.
Word reading fluency and accuracy
X
Knowledge and Strategies for Linguistic
comprehension
X
Motivation and interest
=
Reading Comprehension
Because reading in middle and high
school is “thinking guided by print,”
helping students meet grade level
standards in reading is a job for all
teachers, not just “reading teachers.”
It’s at least as much about building
content knowledge, vocabulary, and
thinking skills as it is about helping
struggling readers learn to read
accurately and fluently