Health & Fitness
Reading Fluency FAQ
Placement testing, entrance exams, standardized testing-of all the ways we are used to measuring our children's progress at school, few get less attention than reading fluency. Yet for many students, and especially those who struggle to make grades, reading fluency (or a lack thereof) is to blame for a lot of late nights and classroom woes.
Learning the basics of reading fluency can 1) help you know what you're looking at the next time you're talking academics with your children or their teachers, and 2) best determine the right course of action if your student is struggling in the classroom.
Find out what's happening in Homewood-Flossmoorwith free, real-time updates from Patch.
What is reading fluency?
Find out what's happening in Homewood-Flossmoorwith free, real-time updates from Patch.
Reading fluency means being able to read quickly, accurately, and effortlessly. But it also means more than that.
More so than speed (in fact, by most measurements, readers don't need to be very fast at all to be considered fluent),reading fluency measures efficiency-the ability to read and comprehend text at a smooth pace without having to pause to consciously decode its meaning.
