Student Fluency Strategies

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Fluency Strategies According to Cooper, Robinson, Slansky, and Kiger (2015), “fluency is the ability of the student to read words and connected text smoothly and correctly with understanding” (p. 11). Fluency is important because it is needed to enjoy reading. Students who cannot read a story fluently lose touch with what the author is trying to say, and the magic of the story becomes lost in the struggle. Furthermore, not only is the magic of the story lost, the ability to comprehend text, in general, becomes difficult. Lack of fluency can lead to students being unable to complete assignments. “Creating students who can read and write well is no easy task, and providing instruction that ensures this is crucial” (Lipp & Helfrich, 2016, pg. …show more content…

Teachers need to help students learn fluency by guiding them through the reading process. Guided reading can include many techniques such as an adult or peer reading to the student to model fluent reading, a student listening to a recording of a familiar text while following along in the book selected by the teacher, or small group instruction where students practice fluency with a teacher. “The National Reading Panel concluded that repeated oral reading procedures that included guidance from teachers, peers, or parents had a significant and positive impact on word recognition, fluency, and comprehension across a range of grade levels” (National Institute of child health and development, 2013). Furthermore, guided reading allows the teacher to be able to be flexible and scaffold student reading when …show more content…

Rereading can be done in a small group setting or with individual students. Every time a student does a rereading, they become familiar with the text, learn to correct their mistakes, and improve their phrasing and rate. Students must reread text four times to improve their fluency. The more students read, the less they focus on sounding out individual words. They can start use words and prosody to convey meaning into their reading. Rereading is a skill that can be practiced at home especially because it is best done with text that students find interesting. Teachers can inform parents of the importance of the rereading to help their students become fluent readers and ask them to read a selected text four times a night (“What Works in Fluency Instruction,” 2013). “The more models of fluent reading the children hear, the better.”

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