Tag: reading fluency
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TOWRE-2 Explainer
A Parent Field Guide TOWRE-2: What parents actually need to know. Test of Word Reading Efficiency, Second Edition The TOWRE-2 is the test that asks one question: how fast can your child read words against the clock? Not how accurately. Not how comprehensively. Just speed and automaticity. In dyslexia evaluation, that question is the one…
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GORT-5 Explainer
A Parent Field Guide GORT-5: What parents actually need to know. Gray Oral Reading Test, Fifth Edition The GORT-5 measures how your child reads aloud. It is the test most often given when a school or clinician wants to know how reading sounds in real time, with all the cracks showing. This guide walks through…
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Why Timed Reading Tests Aren’t the Enemy, and What They Actually Tell Us About Your Child
Reading Rockets describes fluency as the ability to read text accurately and quickly with appropriate expression. The key word is “quickly,” not in a competitive sense, but in the sense that a truly fluent reader does not have to devote much conscious attention to individual words. The reading feels smooth because the decoding is happening…
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Why Dyslexic Readers Stumble Over Simple Words Like ‘the,’ ‘of,’ and ‘by’
You’ve watched your child read “caterpillar” out loud without skipping a beat. You felt that little swell of pride. Then two words later: “of.” A pause. A substitution. They say “or” instead, or just barrel past it and hope you didn’t notice. How does that happen? How can a kid decode a six-syllable word and…
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The Reading Strategy You’ve Never Heard Of (But Should Absolutely Be Using)
If you’ve watched your child decode a word perfectly during flashcard-style practice and then completely fall apart when that same word shows up in a sentence, you are not imagining things. And you’ve probably been told the same thing over and over: just have them read more. More books. More time. More practice. Here’s the…