Fluency is often described as a bridge between decoding and comprehension. If readers do not develop adequate levels of fluency, they can become stuck in the middle of the bridge, able to decode words but with insufficient fluency skills to adequately facilitate comprehension or to enjoy the process of reading.
What will you learn in this training?
In this course Fluency: Helping Students Become Fluent Readers, you will learn...
- commonly misunderstood myths about fluency
- the three major components of fluency – accuracy, rate, and expression- and how they are connected
- how struggling readers differ from their more fluent peers
- how to assess all elements of fluency in a meaningful way
You will also learn strategies for improving fluency in struggling readers:
- to help them improve in automaticity at the single word and phrasal levels
- to help them read in meaningful phrases
- to help them learn about and practice intonation and expression
- how to assess all elements of fluency in a meaningful way
You will also receive a Participants’ Packet, which includes sample fluency rubrics and examples of phonetically regular practice of words and phrases to help students become more automatic readers.
