Reading Fluency

What is reading fluency?

Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately and quickly.

Fluency is important because it helps students to understand what they read. Reading fluency can be developed by modeling fluent reading.

How The Family Readers learn-to-read books address reading fluency:

• Say the sounds from the front page review

• Read aloud each word on the front page review

• Read the story orally with the tutor/parent

• Read each book aloud to family and friend

• Reread the book orally to the tutor/teacher at the beginning of each new lesson

• Learn to read with punctuation marks as suggested on the front page preview which helps give inflection to oral reading and prevents or improves monotone reading