Building Fluency

Building Fluency

1. fluency

   • accuracy
     • overemphasis will decrease reading speed
   • automaticity
   • rate of silent reading and comprehension
   • comprehension
     • phrasing and expressiveness
   • accuracy and speed of reading have to be balanced

2. choral reading

   • fosters fluency
   • 2 or more people
     • whole class or small group activity
   • unison reading
     • whole group reads together
   • refrain reading
     • leader reads most of text
     • group reads refrain
   • antiphonal reading
     • 2 or more groups alternate

3. modeled techniques for building fluency

   • how you read in phrases
   • how you use your voice to express the author's meaning
   • how you read at a pace that listeners can keep up with but that isn't too fast

4. repeated reading

   • accuracy and rapid recognition of high frequency words
   • variations on repeated reading
     • students work in pairs

5. recorded book method

   • build ability to recognize words automatically and improve phrasing
   • read along as a selection is read
   • pace should be about same rate as student can read orally or slightly faster
   • fluency read alongs
     • increasing amount of reading

6. alternate reading

   • teacher and student take turns reading

7. increasing amount of reading

   • fluency most effectively fostered

8. phrasing of text

9. why fluency instruction works

   • increases amount of reading student do
   • teach readers to read at different rates and for different purposes

10. putting fluency in perspective

    • constructing meaning