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Goal: Fluency

Learn the key components of fluency and why it is important for reading comprehension. Discover tips and techniques to help improve reading fluency and become a more confident reader. Resources and practice activities included. 8 Relevant

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Goal: Fluency

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  1. Goal: Fluency Strategy: Use punctuation and phrasing to read with fluency. By Patty Rieple

  2. What is Fluency? Fluency is the ability to read : • expressively • smoothly • with appropriate speed • with accuracy

  3. 3 Parts of Fluency We often use the term E-S-P to stand for 3 aspects of fluency: • Expression-appropriate voice inflection and pauses that reflect punctuation. • Smoothness-reading in phrases not word-by- word. • Pacing-changes speed to reflect the meaning of the text.

  4. What Do Less FluentReaders Do? • Read with no expression • Ignore punctuation • Read word-by-word not in phrases • Read at the same speed no matter the meaning. • Guess at words they can’t sound out • Have difficulty with sight words and vocabulary. • Do not think about the meaning of the text.

  5. What Do Fluent Readers Do? • Changes voice at the end of sentence to match punctuation. • Pauses between phrases and for punctuation. • Groups words in meaningful phrases. • Adjust reading rate • Uses spelling patterns to help decode words • Instantly recognizes sight words and vocabulary • Attends to meaning as they read

  6. Why do we need fluency? The meaning of what we read is within the phrases and the punctuation, not the isolated words! The way the words are put together, along with the punctuation, create the meaning of the sentence.

  7. Watch how punctuation and phrasing change the meaning of this sentence: Woman, without her man, is nothing. Woman, without her, man is nothing.

  8. Expression ! STRESS makes a difference!. He broke the glass. He broke the glass. He broke the glass.

  9. What ARE you doing? What are YOU doing? What are youDOING? WHAT are you doing? EXPRESSION ! EMPHASIS makes a difference.

  10. Punctuation makes a difference! In his book, Yo! Yes?, author Chris Raschka uses punctuation to change the meaning of these one word sentences. Yo! Yes? Me? You! Me! You? Yo! Yes!

  11. Phrasing ! The frog jumped into the pond. On Saturday, we went ice skating at the arena.

  12. Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between: Word Recognition and Comprehension

  13. Accuracy and Fluency Fluent readers recognize these instantly Word bits Word parts word Vocabulary Sight words Common phrases on top of around the go to the Word Patterns

  14. How do I become a more fluent reader? Practice! Practice! Practice!

  15. Try these things to practice fluency: Reader’s Theater

  16. Try these things to practice fluency: Listen to good readers: Pay attention to their fluency

  17. Try these things to practice fluency: Reread something familiar to you.

  18. Try these things to practice fluency: Read to a friend Repeated Readings

  19. Cycle of Success The more you read……. The more fluent you become……. The more you enjoy reading!

  20. Resources Colorado Reading First-Summer 2004 The Café Book: Engaging all Students in Daily Literacy Assessment and Instruction, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, Stenhouse Publisher, 2009 http://www.cde.state.co.us/coloradoliteracy/crf/downloads/resources/presentations/Fluency.pdf

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