Reading Fluency

Reading Fluency
Author: Timothy Rasinski
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3039432680

Reading fluency has been identified as a key component of proficient reading. Research has consistently demonstrated significant and substantial correlations between reading fluency and overall reading achievement. Despite the great potential for fluency to have a significant outcome on students’ reading achievement, it continues to be not well understood by teachers, school administrators and policy makers. The chapters in this volume examine reading fluency from a variety of perspectives. The initial chapter sketches the history of fluency as a literacy instruction component. Following chapters examine recent studies and approaches to reading fluency, followed by chapters that explore actual fluency instruction models and the impact of fluency instruction. Assessment of reading fluency is critical for monitoring progress and identifying students in need of intervention. Two articles on assessment, one focused on word recognition and the other on prosody, expand our understanding of fluency measurement. Finally, a study from Turkey explores the relationship of various reading competencies, including fluency, in an integrated model of reading. Our hope for this volume is that it may spark a renewed interest in research into reading fluency and fluency instruction and move toward making fluency instruction an even more integral part of all literacy instruction.

Instructional Effectiveness Versus Efficiency

Instructional Effectiveness Versus Efficiency
Author: Kristen McLeod
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Oral reading
ISBN:

The most frequent type of referral to school psychologists concerning students with academic problems is in the area of reading (Joseph, 2002a). More specifically, reading fluency is considered the most common characteristic of problem readers (Adams, 1990). The purpose of this investigation was to provide educators with information regarding a successful type of corrective feedback procedure to use during oral reading fluency instruction to help children read with greater accuracy and fluency. In particular, the current study investigated the effects of three specific types of delayed corrective feedback for words read incorrectly during repeated readings (oral reading fluency instruction) of connected text to identify which technique was most effective and which was most time efficient for improving student's oral reading fluency and word identification skills. Methods of corrective feedback included: phonic analysis (i.e. word boxes), interspersal of unknown to known words, and traditional drill. Nine third grade students participated in the study upon referral from special education and general education teachers for additional intervention services in reading. Results indicated that children achieved cumulative gains in learning under each of the three corrective feedback procedures. Albeit, in the area of instructional effectiveness, the traditional and interspersal methods most effectively increased participants cumulative reading fluency, and the traditional and phonic analysis procedures, aided in most effectively increasing participants cumulative word identification. The traditional approach was most efficient for improving both fluency and word recognition.