Fluency is defined as
the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression.
Their reading sounds natural, like they are talking. Readers
who are not fluent sound choppy and sound out words slowly.
Fluency is important because it allows the reader to spend less time
on decoding words and more time on comprehension. The best
strategy for developing reading fluency is to provide your child
with many opportunities to read the same passage orally several
times.
A Second Grader is
expected to read 90 grade level words a minute by the end of
the school year. There fluency is assessed throughout the year
by one minute timings in the classroom as well as the DIBELS. The
Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills are a set of
standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy
development. They are designed to be short fluency measures used to
regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading
skills. The results can be used to evaluate individual student
development as well as provide grade-level feedback toward validated
instructional objectives.
By the end of second grade, a
child...
