Fluency

Automaticity

• refers to accurate and speedy word recognition

• refers to reading with expression and clarity

• is another word for fluency

• none of the above

Which activity listed below, works best for increasing fluency?

• sustained silent reading

• repeated readings

• round robin readings

• all of the above

Which activity does NOT promote fluency in students?

• listening to someone model fluent reading

• receiving guidance when reading aloud

• silent reading in the classroom

• reading a book that is at the right level for independent reading

A book is considered to be at the instructional level if it can be read with:

• more than 90% accuracy

• 90% accuracy

• between 70% and 90% accuracy

• less than 70% accuracy

A fluent reader__________________:

• reads with expression

• divides text into meaningful chunks

• pauses appropriately within and at the end of sentences

• all of the above

Fluency changes_______________:

• depending on what the reader is reading

• depending on the reader's familiarity with the words in the text

• depending on the amount of practice the reader has reading text

• all of the above

Listening to an adult model fluent reading____________:

• gives students a chance to hear how the written text should sound

• demonstrates fluency to students

• serves as a strategy for building fluency

• all of the above

Struggling readers may have slower fluency rates because they ___________:

• have no background knowledge on the subject

• decode unfamiliar words

• are reading text that is beyond their reading level

• all of the above

The best strategy for developing fluency is to provide your students with opportunities to __________:

• read the same passage orally several times

• read different passages silently

• read passages that are easy

• read difficult passages

Model fluent reading, then have students________________:

• watch a videotape

• reread the text on their own

• choose a different book to read

• none of the above