Reading Fluency
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What is reading fluency and why practice for fluency?
Reading fluency is defined as the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. In order to understand what is read, children must be able to read fluently whether they are reading aloud or silently. When reading aloud, fluent readers read in phrases and add intonation appropriately. Their reading is smooth and has expression.
Practicing with fluency passages is an important part of helping a student improve with their ability to read smoothly. If the student makes many errors while reading or the reading does not sound like a spoken conversation, he or she needs to practice reading fluency. Early readers spend a great deal of energy sounding out (decoding) the words on the page. Their reading often times sounds robotic. As a child learns the phonetic rules and can apply them with ease along with automatic recall of all sight words, reading begins to sound more like fluent reading.
Fluency Passages