National Reading Panel - Fluency

I'm doing fluency here.

Reading fluency.

Fluency! Fluency! It's the ability to process text quickly.

And it should only be done, it should only be used, fluency activities, for those students who need it, who have trouble with fluency.

It's very much like practicing scales.

You practice your scales so you don't read note by note, so you can read notes fluently.

Very similar approach if you've learned an instrument.

Couple words we need to clarify.

Paucity is when oral reading sounds like speaking.

There are the correct pauses and inflection.

Now, you don't teach paucity.

Paucity is an effect.

Expression, read with expression.

The only time you have to read with expression is if you're in theater or doing dramatic reading.

And again, prosody is an effect.

It's not something we can teach.

So for fluency, we use repeated reading, various forms of that.

And it's anything that can get you reading a text until fluency is achieved.

And we're going to look at two activities, words per minute and short passage fluency.

This should be one small part of reading instruction or an intervention only for those students who need it.