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Fluency
Instruction
The oral reading of
text, both accurately and quickly, using correct expression is the goal
of fluency instruction. Fluency
instruction is the most often overlooked instructional component even
though research has identified a close relationship between fluency and
reading comprehension. Automaticity,
or rapid, effortless word recognition, must be achieved before students
can become fluent readers. The
speech capabilities of
multimedia technologies provide scaffolding and support to
students struggling with automaticity and fluency. Teachers can guide students in creating self-running
hypermedia presentations, using the timing features of software such as
PowerPoint, to practice personalized sets of words in which students are
lacking automaticity. Once
automaticity has been achieved, the focus of instruction should shift to
building fluency. Through
listening to good models of fluent reading, students come to understand
how tone and expression can help written text make sense.
Both choral and repeated oral reading has been shown to
substantially improve fluency. A
growing number of websites provide audio files to accompany online
books. Students can read
the text as they listen to a fluent reader.
This technology supports both repeated and choral reading.
Book-Pop
Books Contact: Diana Dell, Ed.S. (ddell@vp.k12.mo.us )
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