Fluency
Fluency is the mastery of the skill of phonics and phonemic awareness to the point of automaticity.
Fluency Assessments
Fluency Assessments
- DIBELS 8th Edition"DIBELS 8th Edition is a set of short (one minute) fluency measures that can be used for universal screening, benchmark assessment, and progress monitoring in Kindergarten to 8th grade. DIBELS 8th Edition provides educators with standards for gauging the progress of all students."
- DIBELS in OZ Facebook Group"A group for teachers and education staff to ask questions and share information about their experiences with DIBELS 8th in Australian schools."
LINKS
Fluency Lesson Resources
- Fluency Norms Chart (2017 Update)"In 2017, Hasbrouck and Tindal published an Update of Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Norms, compiled from three widely-used and commercially available ORF assessments (DIBELS, DIBELS Next, and easy CBM), and representing a far larger number of scores than the previous assessments. The table below shows the mean oral reading fluency of students in grades 1 through 6, as determined by Hasbrouck's and Tindal's 2017 data. You can also see an analysis of how the 2017 norms differ from the 2006 norms ... "
books about fluency
Books on Fluency
The Megabook of Fluency by ISBN: 9781338257014Publication Date: 2018-04-18Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers effectively weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with engaging text and tools, an assessment scale, and high quality ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency-- and its pivotal relationship to comprehension and word recognition--the potential is high for improving students' overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas.
What is fluency
Resources
- Evidence-based Fluency Instruction"The idea of reading fluency seems relatively straightforward. We know what it sounds like when a child can read fluently. They are reading accurately, at a good pace, and with appropriate expression. Their reading appears effortless and natural. However, fluent reading requires mastering a complex set of interacting skills and knowledge that does not come easily to all children ... "
- Fluency | Education Department NSW GovernmentThese resources supplied by the Education Department of NSW includes the following: What is Fluency? Why is Fluency Important? How to Teach Fluency, Classroom Resources and Professional Learning.
Readings
Readings and Videos
- Fluency instruction: Paired/partner reading"In the paired/partner reading strategy, two students read the same passage aloud to each other. When partnering students, more fluent readers can be paired with less fluent readers, or students who read at the same level can be paired to reread a story they have already had modelled for them ... "
- Reading Fluency Assessment: The Role of Word-level Automaticity"This study examined the use of an isolated word recognition assessment, the
Appalachian State Word Reading Inventory (ASUWRI), to assess students’ automatic word recognition ... "
- Learning Difficulties Australia Bulletin Special Edition | Reading FluencyIn the Special Issue on Fluency section, Dr Jan Hasbrouck explains the concept of reading fluency and dispels some common misconceptions about the topic. Dr Tom Nicholson discusses evidence related to the efficacy of fluency intervention, and Emeritus Professor Kevin and Dr Robyn Wheldall give important insights into the development of their own reading fluency test, the WARP. Accurate word recognition is, of course the prerequisite for developing reading fluency, and Dr Toni Seiler and Dr Suze Leitão provide evidence about an intervention strategy they have documented that supports the development of word recognition skills. Dr Elizabeth Norton provides an intriguing focus on research into Rapid Automatized Naming, the assessment of which can act as a warning light for processing problems that are associated with difficulties with reading fluency. Dr Ros Neilson follows up with a speech-language pathologist’s experience of RAN.