Here is an example of what have a fluency deficient feels like:
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Frustrating, isn't it.
Well all the examples that the text gave to help with fluency, I paid a lot of attention to teaching fluency to children with learning disabilities or in special education classrooms seeing as that I am going to be a special education classroom. It is a lot more difficult to teach fluency to these types of students because actually decoding the word is very difficult. The solution provided is very easy, repetitive passages. As the teacher, you must select passages that are relatively short and simple. As a class, you practice one passage out loud. After some practice as a whole, the students are split into pairs where they recite the passage at least three times with a good fluency. The passage can also be recited in front of a faculty member. After time is spent practicing all throughout the school day, the students are sent home with the passage and told to recite the passage with the fluency they've worked on to anyone that will listen. The next day the passage is reviewed again, and then the class moves on to a new passage for the day. This seems a very practical and simple way to increase your child's fluency.
What ways would you teach fluency in your class?
Why do you think that learning fluency is so important to young readers?
Although some parts of the video are hard to hear/understand, here is an example of an activity to work on fluency.
I chose to read Creating Fluent Readers this week, but it described almost the same exact things. Both spoke about how it is often focused on the rate of reading and doesn't also take into consideration the fluency of reading that the student has. I liked your example of fluent deficiency because after like two words I was like there is no way I could read through this in its entirely with the words all together with no spaces. It is important as teachers to understand how students approach reading in different ways and may have weaknesses and strengths that are different from other students. The teacher must get to know each student and what they are skilled in and what needs improvement. I enjoyed reading about helping students become fluent in reading because I want to teach students who are deaf and hard of hearing who might have a struggle with comprehension in reading.
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