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How Decodable Texts Support Reading Fluency

Posted on 19th June 202319th June 2023 in Learning to Read, Reading Resources and tagged decoding and reading fluency, Reading FluencyLeave a Comment

For children to comprehend a text, they need to read it fluently. If the reading is disfluent, the reader will struggle to hold onto all the information to comprehend a sentence or paragraph. We know that reading fluency has three components, as seen above: Accuracy – children need to be able to read words accurately. […]

How decodable texts contribute to reading fluency and comprehension

Posted on 25th February 202110th March 2021 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Decodable Books, Learning to Read and tagged best decodable books, decoding and reading fluency, Reading Fluency, reading fluency and comprehension, reading fluency and struggling readers, what is reading fluency?Leave a Comment

Reading fluency is a precondition for reading comprehension. If the reader is not fluent he/she will struggle to put the words together in a sentence and make meaning of it. When short term memory is taken up by working out what the words are on the page, it can’t focus on what they mean. So […]