Tag: reading fluency
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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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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…