Reading Fluency Practice

Prosody plays an important role in fluency development because…

• It communicates the meaning of the written word

• It helps other speakers understand a CLD student’s accent

• It provides clues about the definition of the word

• It helps with orthography

The ability to read with proper expression, at the correct speed, and without error

• fluency

• automaticity

• prosody

• rate

Washback is the same as 'teaching to the test'.

• True

• False

Written corrective feedback is manageable only when students are not cognitively overloaded.

• True

• False

Correctly reading the words in a text

• accuracy

• automaticity

• rate

• prosody

Instantly recognizing a large word bank and being able to decode unfamiliar words quickly

• automaticity

• rate

• prosody

• accuracy

Reading with appropriate intonation, expression, rhythm, while using the correct words and punctuation

• prosody

• rate

• automaticity

• accuracy

Reading speed

• rate

• fluency

• prosody

• automaticity

Decoding words in a text by breaking them down

• chunking

• questioning

• summarizing

• predicting

The sum of words a reader can understand

• vocabulary

• prosody

• comprehension

• metacognition