What Works in Fluency Instruction

Three important ideas/things from the lesson today are repeated oral readings have a positive impact with guidance from teachers, parents, or peers have a positive impact on word recognition, fluency, and comprehension, more independent silent reading is not always best, and independent silent reading should not be the only form of reading practice, but the most important thing I learned today is that this article was not very helpful. I think I have learned more from my course text books than from many of the articles I have read recently on this website. I am also learning more from experiencing struggling readers in my classroom and doing what works for them. I don't think there is ever only one strategy that fits every struggling reader so we research and try several until we can find some that truly helps a struggling reader. Even though this article states that there wasn't a correlation to more reading equaling a better reader, I do believe that the more you read, the better you will become and the stronger vocabulary you will have. I think reading more often to become a better reader is better than just throwing in the towel.

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