Fluency and Reading Comprehension

What is fluency

• A type of fluency

• Ability to read a text with appropriate rate

• Ability to read with accuracy and correct expression

• A type of fashion

What is reading comprehension?

• Student using background knowledge to understand what the author is trying to say within a text

• Student using background knowledge to read a text

What is one common core standard for fluency and comprehension?

• Key Ideas and Details

• Craft and Structure

• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

• Range of Reading and Level of text complexity

What is one ways teachers assess student fluency?

• Rate of reading

• Accuracy of word reading

• Prosody

• How much you like the student

When you are testing a student for fluency, are you also looking to see if the student understands what they are reading?

• Yes

• No

When a teacher goes to assess students reading comprehension, what is one area they look at first?

• The reader

• The students genre insterests

• The purpose for reading

• The text

Which term describes where the students find the main idea and put it in their own words?

• Using a visual organizer

• Previewing, predicting and developing prior knowledge

• Summarizing

• Clarifying unclear terms

True or False: For range of reading and higher text complexity, students should be able to not only understand the texts at their grade level but also higher texts.

• True

• False

What is one way a students fluency information can be plotted?

• Scatter plot

• Number line

• Bar Graph

• Pie Graph

True or False: Silent Reading is one of the best practices to teach fluency?

• True

• False