Jan Hasbrook is an educational

consultant.

If we don't correctly read what the text is, our brain is not going to be able to correctly comprehend what that is.

But we also know because of the way our brains process language, and reading is a language-based activity, that rate or fluency or automaticity plays a role too, simply because of the mechanisms of our brain.

If information comes, if language-based information comes into our brain either too slowly or too quickly because of the mechanisms of short-term memory and long-term memory, our brains can't deal with it.

The information, language-based information, has to come in at a certain rate.

The only reason we care about reading fluency is because of its link to comprehension.