Word Level Reading: 4.5 Fluency

Participants will be able to:

Describe the nature and importance of word-level reading fluency
Describe the basis for reading fluency
Understand why many fluency-related efforts fail, and what can be done about that

View Session 5 below.

*Please see the Transcripts resource folder located in Module 0 for a text copy of the transcript from this video.

Fluency involves fast, accurate, and expressive reading
Conventional views about fluency are not consistent with more recent research on reading development
Reading practice, per se, has limited benefits for students with fluency problems
Fluency is best understood as a byproduct of the size of a student’s sight vocabulary
Efforts to boost fluency should be directed toward helping students build their sight vocabularies by being efficient orthographic mappers
Reading practice is the only way to develop reading skills when students are good orthographic mappers

How has your perspective been changes, if at all, based upon these ideas about fluency? How might your teaching differ?