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Why is Fluency important?
Research says:
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Successful readers...
- rely primarily on the letters in the word rather than context or
pictures to identify familiar and unfamiliar words.
- process virtually every
letter.
- use letter-sound correspondences to identify words.
- have a
reliable strategy for decoding words.
- read words for a sufficient number
of times for words to become automatic.
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Why Focus on Fluency?
To gain meaning from text, students must read fluently.
- Proficient readers are so automatic with each component skill (phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary)
that they focus their attention on constructing meaning from the print (Kuhn & Stahl, 2000,
see References).
- Component skills need to be well developed to support understanding.
- It is not enough to be simply accurate; the skill must be automatic.
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Dr. Reid Lyon:
- The focus of reading instruction is not only on getting students to know sounds or letters but to get to the meaning
- Building automaticity in the component skills is analogous to learning to ride a bike
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This video clip used with the permission of Reading Rockets,
a project of Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA).
More information is available at:
http://www.ReadingRockets.org/
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