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Skill, concentration, stamina
Instructional practice fosters independent reading
The bridge between word recognition and comprehension.
The hallmark of a fluent reader is one who decodes and comprehends simultaneously.

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"The Wonders of Fluency"

Fluency is the ability to read text quickly, accurately, and with expression.

Fluency is vital to comprehension

Fosters independent reading of complex text

College and career readiness

Dimensions...accuracy, automaticity, prosody

Provides a bridge word recognition and comprehension

NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT, PRACTICED, MONITORED AND ASSESSED

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Fluent Reader
Quickly, accurately with prosody
Understands meaning
Reads effortlessly and expressively
Segments texts into meaningful chunks
A sense of feeling, anticipation, or characterization
Taught and assessed systematiacally
Directly impacts comprehension process

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Our working memory stores what we read for about 8-1- minutes.
1. accuracy 2. speed 3. prosody
Fluency is critical bridge between decoding and comprehension!
Fluency matters!
People can successfully focus on only one thing at a time unless one is "automatic"
Model for students!
What is your purpose for practicing and/or assessing fluency?
Fluency must be taught, practiced, monitored and assesses.
Oral reading practice is most beneficial.
Kinders need to focus on word identification!

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VITAL to COMPREHENSION
Students read quickly...
kids read accurately...

and PROSODY is the key.

Drop the mic!

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J & J
Fluency
75% of students w/ comp difficulties have underlying fluency issues.
Fluency is the bridge b/n word recognition and comprehension.
Being able to read cmplex text independently and proficiently is essential for high achievement in college and the workplace.
D x LC = RC
0 x LC = 0
D x 0 = 0
Lexile levels have stayed the same in college material for the past 50 + years.
Lexile levels in K-12 material has steadily declined.

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Fluency
Vital to comprehension
Not only rapid reading, which fails to grasp intent
Rather accuracy, speed,  prosody